Just like how the proletariat is divided thanks to class unconsciousness, I wonder if the same sometimes dogs the bourgeoisie. Wars are a key example where even a united bourgeois class can enter conflict with itself.
There are growing divisions within the capitalists about how to navigate the latest wave of imperial crises, and with that has come a cold war of political influences and the conflict within a usually-united class. Whilst this will threaten global capital, and with it many capitalists, there will be others who take the spoils of the coming disruption for their own gain.
Funnily enough, the bourgeoisie are usually united in class unconsciousness. Unlike workers, when they act out of a narrow self interest, it tends to constructively interfere. And the US, they’ve been acting inside a liberal legal system designed to cushion any harsh consequences that kind of blind profit seeking leads to. A few of them are more aware, but it just means when they act out of narrow self interests, it’s just a little more savvy and with a slightly broader time horizon. Bezos and Buffet already liquidated a bunch of wealth last November.
The bourgeoisie are always class conscious, but fractured by campism, they DO come together if capitalism is sufficiently threatened. They are a homogeneous blob in the sense that they oppose working class movements and labour emancipation, but the struggle over the division of the earth is always there.
Just like how the proletariat is divided thanks to class unconsciousness, I wonder if the same sometimes dogs the bourgeoisie. Wars are a key example where even a united bourgeois class can enter conflict with itself.
There are growing divisions within the capitalists about how to navigate the latest wave of imperial crises, and with that has come a cold war of political influences and the conflict within a usually-united class. Whilst this will threaten global capital, and with it many capitalists, there will be others who take the spoils of the coming disruption for their own gain.
Funnily enough, the bourgeoisie are usually united in class unconsciousness. Unlike workers, when they act out of a narrow self interest, it tends to constructively interfere. And the US, they’ve been acting inside a liberal legal system designed to cushion any harsh consequences that kind of blind profit seeking leads to. A few of them are more aware, but it just means when they act out of narrow self interests, it’s just a little more savvy and with a slightly broader time horizon. Bezos and Buffet already liquidated a bunch of wealth last November.
The bourgeoisie are always class conscious, but fractured by campism, they DO come together if capitalism is sufficiently threatened. They are a homogeneous blob in the sense that they oppose working class movements and labour emancipation, but the struggle over the division of the earth is always there.