The ruling-class, called so because whoever we elect into government these people will always own the wealth created by the proletariat, these are the people we call “employers” and “bankers”. The people who have ‘pulled themselves up by their own boot strings’ and made a success out of life. Roughly translated this means; those people who are cunning enough not to do any work at all and get thousands of others to work for them! Irrespective of who sits in the various parliaments around the so-called ‘free world’ these people will still own ninety percent of the wealth created by the ‘labour power’ of the neo-proletariat*.
It should be pointed out this parasitical class are the minority on this planet yet they cause most climatic damage and in the process of exploitation accumulate huge sums of wealth by creating absolutely nothing. They have inventors to develop their products after they in the Board Room have decided to enter a process called ‘diversification’, meaning their ‘science departments’ invent new products or develop and upgrade older ones for the market to be sold at exorbitant prices in their shops and multi-stores or online. Their customers are generally the working-class who have produced the products in the first place.
Today the bourgeoisie need fewer and fewer workers to produce goods and services because Artificial Intelligence (AI) once again owned by and for the general benefit of the capitalist class will do the jobs of thousands of workers who will now be denied the right to make a living. There is nothing wrong with new technology the question is, as always has been, who owns it and for whose benefit? Who owns the means of production, distribution, and exchange? The same argument which has prevailed since the industrial revolution and the days of Richard Arckwright, John Kay, inventor of the Flying Shuttle in Textiles, and other pioneers of their day. In those days the developing bourgeoisie had a progressive role to play in the development of industry, though exploitation was at a high level particularly of women and child labour, whereas today the capitalist class are loafers who invent fuck all. That is done by inventors in their employment!
Occasionally members of the bourgeois class attend a building called a church. They attend this establishment to perform a ritual called prayer where they, either collectively or as individuals, go through this performance to thank the ‘superior being’ called God for all the wealth he has bestowed on them over the previous year. They actually do believe, or do a good job of pretending to do so, it is God's will they be allowed to rob people of the fruits of their labour for the whole of the worker's life. They then pray to this God to make them even richer by increasing profits for the coming year, an increase as great as possible on the previous twelve months. Finally they say a quick prayer, if time permits, for the poor many of whose poverty they, the bourgeoisie and their system, are greatly responsible for. These sickening people then leave this Church pretending to like each other but in reality, the sight of one another they cannot stand, and return home to a huge feast. This time of year these bandits pray even harder to the ‘Almighty’ for their firms and the system in the coming year.
Tomorrow is Christmas Day, another day of prayer for many bourgeoisie hypocrites and another invention of the capitalist-class, and is a time of year our friends the employing classes increase their profits enormously while the working-class, in many instances, go into debt for the coming year. The goods sold in the shops, again owned by the bourgeoisie, are over-priced because they know full well people will go into debt in order to purchase them. Today kids will no longer settle for a stocking present and one major present reasonably priced to save the parents debt. No, today, it has to be state of the arts computers fully programmed with the latest ‘Eye Phone’ with all the internet and social media apps attached as stocking presents.
Occasionally members of the bourgeois class attend a building called a church. They attend this establishment to perform a ritual called prayer where they, either collectively or as individuals, go through this performance to thank the ‘superior being’ called God for all the wealth he has bestowed on them over the previous year. They actually do believe, or do a good job of pretending to do so, it is God's will they be allowed to rob people of the fruits of their labour for the whole of the worker's life. They then pray to this God to make them even richer by increasing profits for the coming year, an increase as great as possible on the previous twelve months. Finally they say a quick prayer, if time permits, for the poor many of whose poverty they, the bourgeoisie and their system, are greatly responsible for. These sickening people then leave this Church pretending to like each other but in reality, the sight of one another they cannot stand, and return home to a huge feast. This time of year these bandits pray even harder to the ‘Almighty’ for their firms and the system in the coming year.
Tomorrow is Christmas Day, another day of prayer for many bourgeoisie hypocrites and another invention of the capitalist-class, and is a time of year our friends the employing classes increase their profits enormously while the working-class, in many instances, go into debt for the coming year. The goods sold in the shops, again owned by the bourgeoisie, are over-priced because they know full well people will go into debt in order to purchase them. Today kids will no longer settle for a stocking present and one major present reasonably priced to save the parents debt. No, today, it has to be state of the arts computers fully programmed with the latest ‘Eye Phone’ with all the internet and social media apps attached as stocking presents.
Many working-class people will be in debt for the coming months of the new year in order their children are not disappointed at Christmas. This is perfectly understandable given the nature of modern society and the appetite for consumer goods. And the bourgeoisie? They get even wealthier selling these goods created by working-class ‘labour power’ somewhere on the planet! And what of the coming year 2026? Never fear the bourgeoisie are here to help yet again!! They can offer people savings clubs for next Christmas, 2026. On 16th December I could not believe my eyes and ears on television as offers of savings clubs for next Christmas were advertised. They have not even got all your money for this year and the are touting to increase profits already for next Christmas. This they would call ‘profit projection’, worked out on how much they have managed to steal this Christmas and how much, through their special savings schemes, they can con out of people for next Christmas.
Here is the next con; money saved in these clubs cannot be spent wherever the saver wishes, no, no, don’t be fucking stupid, the money so diligently saved over the year must be spent in specific stores often receiving vouchers, not cash: the capitalists bank this accumulating interest, and hampers for that particular retailer. Unlike regular banks where a person can at least draw their money and spend it as the please these clubs limit the saver to the stores owned by individual capitalists who also run the scheme! Stuffed again just like the proverbial turkey many will eat at the table on the 25th December! But never fear our lovely gang of international brigands will start picking your pockets nice and early ensuring your entire life is one of debt, misery and need.
The irony is if all these pitfalls were to be pointed out to the victims of these robber barons the explainer would be called a ‘Scrooge’ or a ‘killjoy’ for wrecking these victim’s illusionary party. Deep down people know this exploitation is happening but refuse to lift a finger to stop it, perhaps it’s just easier to carry on with a lifetime of debt!
The irony is if all these pitfalls were to be pointed out to the victims of these robber barons the explainer would be called a ‘Scrooge’ or a ‘killjoy’ for wrecking these victim’s illusionary party. Deep down people know this exploitation is happening but refuse to lift a finger to stop it, perhaps it’s just easier to carry on with a lifetime of debt!
Oh well, old Ebeneezer here has had his say, not that anybody will listen after all what is the point life will go on as will exploitation and legalised robbery.
Merry Christmas everybody on this uplifting note!
*Neo-Proletariat – the modern working-class who are employed by the modern transnational bourgeoisie in the high-tech industries of today which have replaced the old heavy industries and Fordist production line. The fact remains these people are still the proletariat of today selling their ‘labour power’ to an employer for a monetary wage.
Merry Christmas everybody on this uplifting note!
*Neo-Proletariat – the modern working-class who are employed by the modern transnational bourgeoisie in the high-tech industries of today which have replaced the old heavy industries and Fordist production line. The fact remains these people are still the proletariat of today selling their ‘labour power’ to an employer for a monetary wage.
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| Caoimhin O’Muraile is Independent Socialist Republican and Marxist. |
Happy Christmas, Caoimhin and best of luck in your continuing recovery./
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