Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply | |
Posted by: | Steven Rose | |
Date/Time: | 27/05/24 16:22:00 |
The concept of ‘working people’, which Keir Starmer evidently holds dear, is a Marxist construct invented in the nineteenth century when society was supposedly divided between a rentier class of landowners and capitalists who led a life of leisure while the rest of the population had to work for a living. Even then the concept was outdated given the existence of a burgeoning middle class of professionals, tenant farmers and so on. But today the term ‘working people’ is practically meaningless. The only people of working age who don’t work nowadays are a small number of individuals with private incomes (who for some reason are not included in Ed’s table of socioeconomic status) and the long term unemployed. The real difference is wealth and income. Keir Starmer is a relatively wealthy man. Apart from any pension entitlement due to his position as a former DPP, he earns five times the average salary. But in order not to alienate Labour voters, most of whom earn considerably less than him, he resurrects the concept of a class of working people to which he and they supposedly belong. His implication, of course, is that the Conservatives only represent the interests of the rich who don’t need to work. |
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