And you thought we lived

in a free, democratic, classless society?

In fact, we live in a bourgeois democracy

Run for and by the bourgeoisie

Its ideology is Capitalism

The method by which wealth is accumulated

for the benefit of the bourgeoisie

Democracy serves the interests of the bourgeois class

Democracy's narrow limits are set by capitalist exploitation

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same

as it was in the ancient Greek republics:

Freedom for the slave-owners

Fuck the "Do-Gooders" - Perpetuating Exploitation

How do you feel towards those who want to help you? Who care for your well-being? Who sacrifice themselves for you benefit?

Those good liberals and conservatives who do charity work for the poor and under-privileged. Bake a cake for the destitute. Send a Christmas present to the suffering children of Iraq.

You know the type. Patronising, condescending wimps who salve their consciences by praying to God and giving to charity. These are the people I hate most. The privileged kill with their kindness.

This is why the bourgeoisie are still the ruling class.

Karl Marx predicted the inevitable implosion of capitalism and theorized that a much more humane, egalitarian, and democratic system would rise in its place.

It is little wonder that the bourgeoisie in the United States have striven so tenaciously to inculcate the unwashed masses to despise, fear, and ridicule socialism, communism, and nearly all aspects of Marxist thought.

Sound bites, emotionally evocative images, ahistorical presentations, fear mongering, jingoism, advertising, and numerous temptations of instant gratification comprise a vast array of highly refined and insidious propaganda that perpetually hammers our minds to create a potent and effective false consciousness, and an irrational fear of anything but capitalism.

The American bourgeoisie will never accept or tolerate the idea that the political struggle is between bourgeois and proletarian democracy.

In most cases, the bourgeoisie absolutely denies the mere possibility of a proletarian democracy.

The bourgeoisie does concede however that the political struggle may be between the bourgeois conservatives and the bourgeois liberals.

But as long as power democratically rotates among various sectors of the bourgeoisie, our democracy is irrefutably bourgeois.

Bourgeois Society (Capitalism)
Bourgeois Society is the social formation in which the commodity relation – the relation of buying and selling – has spread into every corner of life.

The family and the state still exist, but – the family is successively broken down and atomised, more and more resembling a relationship of commercial contract, rather than one genuinely expressing kinship and the care of one generation for the other.

The state retains its essential instruments of violence, but more and more comes under the sway of commerical interests, reduced to acting as a buyer and seller of services on behalf of the community.

The ruling class in bourgeois society is the bourgeoisie, who own the means of production as Private Property, despite the fact that the productive forces have become entirely socialised and operate on the scale of the world market.

The producing class in bourgeois society is the proletariat, a class of people who have nothing to sell but their capacity to work; since all the means of production belong to the bourgeoisie, workers have no choice but to offer their labour-power for sale to the bourgeoisie.

This system of buying and selling labour-power is called wage-labour and is characteristic of bourgeois society, though it has been around since the Peasant Revolt of 1381.

The classic form of wage labour is payment for work by the hour or week. Nowadays many workers work on the basis of contracts and piece-work but these forms only disguise the underlying relationship, which remains that of wage-labour.

Money and all forms of credit reach their highest development in bourgeois society. As a result, life in bourgeois society “happens” to people in much the same way as the weather happens to people, with money flowing around apparently according to its own laws.

To put this another way, in bourgeois society there is a “fetishism” of commodities.

Just as tribal peoples believed that their lives were being determined by trees and animals and natural forces possessing human powers, in bourgeois society, people's lives are driven by money and other commodities, whose value is determined by extramundane forces.

Bourgeois Democracy

American politics is a form of government that serves in the interests of the bourgeois class.

The word Democratic is attached to such a government, because in it all people in such a society have certain freedoms:

Those who own the means of production, the bourgeoisie, are free to buy and sell labor-power and what is produced by it solely for their own benefit.

Those who own only their own ability to labor, the proletariat, are free to sell themselves to any bourgeois who will buy their labor power, for the benefit of maintaining their own survival, and giving greater strength and power to the bourgeoisie.

The state fundamentally represents the interests of one class over others. On this basis Lenin named bourgeois democracy bourgeois dictatorship.

On the same token, Lenin made no distinction that the socialist state, being a state that represents the working-class, is a dictatorship of the proletariat.

In no civilized capitalist country does "democracy in general" exist. All that exists is bourgeois democracy.

It is not a question of "dictatorship in general", but of the dictatorship of the oppressed class, i.e., the proletariat, over its oppressors and exploiters, i.e., the bourgeoisie, in order to overcome the resistance offered by the exploiters in their fight to maintain their domination.

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