The working class of the UK are to have their say about the Government
by voting in the General Election. Sadly, voting in the UK election this week
only serves to legitimize the bourgeois hegemony of society. Bourgeois elections
are vacuous and are meticulously structured to keep out the left and to
encapsulate the status-quo. “Democracy” is assiduously showcased to create the
illusion of choice, where working people have unbridled control of their life
and society. However, in this election there are only two major neoliberal
political parties, which only represent business interests, and have the
financial power and the media presence. This leaves 22 lefty parties without
finance and given no major media coverage. Further, the working class is sent one at a
time into singular polling booths to think and decide alone about individualistic
issues, only then does their vote count, and not when millions turn out in the
streets in protest: that social force does not count for a single vote in
bourgeois democracy. It is only in a bourgeois democracy, where capitalism
allocation of social wealth is ossified and unquestioned, where one finds the
universal human rights to housing,
education and healthcare are flouted and actually put to a vote and made
redundant. And finally it is in these elections that wage slavery (the economic
exploitation of labour during production of social wealth) is never discussed and
the working class is left to flounder from one bourgeois election to the next.
Voting every 4 years, the working class are sent home and effectively kept out
of politics and negated from revolutionary praxis of daily social and economic engagement.
Even though all major neoliberal bourgeois parties emphatically
claim to uphold the best interests of the working people, this election is a
continuation of the neoliberal agenda of cutbacks to social services for the
99% (the working people) and the reduction of taxes for the 1%. Capital
continues with its aim to reduce the social responsibility for subsidizing the
reproduction of labour through public education, NHS, and social housing and to
relay that cost on to the working class itself. Moreover, by augmenting the
pressure on the unions and working class associations, wages and benefits will continue
to remain stagnant (real wages will decrease against the rate of inflation) and
the gap between the social wealth of the business elite and the working people
will become staggering in the years to come.
The confluence between major bourgeois parties such UKIP, Conservatives,
Labour, and Liberal Democrats is in their realization of the tumultuous and
revolutionary character of the working class today. Only through continuous manufacturing
of consent via public media, and the monopoly on violence (the police and the
army) has the bourgeois been able to legitimize and control such a vast amount
of social wealth without a revolutionary working class opposition movement. During
elections, bourgeois parties are especially aware of working class power and it
is during these times that the bourgeois hides its real character and pretends
to accede to some of the working class demands: only after the election does it
put itself back into an invidious position against the working class.
Pillaging the working class of all social wealth and
quelling uprisings and protests with state power is not a long-term solution
for capitalism. Neoliberal cutbacks to social services and the reduction of
wages and benefits has and will continue to deepen the economic cycles.
Capitalism, as global system, functions through the realization of profits
which predicates on the economic demand of the working people (mainly): by
cutting away the disposable income of the working people (through wage cuts,
social benefits and offshoring jobs) capital is also damaging the habitat for
its own existence. Simply put, the economic, political difference between
capital and labour is insoluble. Any politics orchestrated by the bourgeois
during elections will always occlude the interests of the working people.
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Chia Barsen
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