ARE WE PROBABLY BLAMING THE ELITES TOO MUCH, WHEN MOST OF US ARE ASPIRING ELITES? PART.2

But let us get back to base, as the essence of this post is that of whether we are blaming the 'elites', be they the political, economic or industrial elites, all of which, at some point merge, as Donald Trump has just vividly demonstrated, by securing the Presidency of the USA.

Yes, the elites have given us a thing or concept called 'democracy', which they now use to legitimise their political authority  over the proletarians. In the economic sphere, the elites have given us this personified thing or concept  called ' the free market' and 'capitalism', which they now use to determine the economic and sentimental value of all that we use in our living.

Like the poor, we will probably always have the elite with us, probably because the elites emanate from us, the proletarians, and are of us. It is to be like the elites which we, the proletarians, aspire, and not to remain in the ranks of the proletarians or the working classes. 

You will hear a member of the elite recount with pride, the story of how his or her family has risen from a working class background and achieve the status and wealth which is now theirs. However, you do not hear a working class family gleefully or self-indulgently recalling how their family descended from the elite classes and fell into the realm of the working classes. 

As I have commented in the past, one of the biggest weaknesses of many working class or revolutionary movements, it that they fail to understand or to give sufficient weight to the fact that the people whom they represent, or profess to represent, do not wish to remain in their current social position. They are aspiring people who want to move up the social ladder; to become like the 'bosses', the 'dons', the 'elites.' 

They do not want to remain 'working class' or 'revolutionary cadres' all of their life. They want to be able to enjoy living, to have families and have the good life. If a political party cannot be flexible enough to evolve into reflecting and representing the 'aspirational growth' of its working class or revolutionary members and supporters, then it is going to be left behind. Resulting in its members who are no longer able to identify, to empathise with its values and policies, migrating to the parties which embrace such aspirations. 


To be continued.