So much thinking goes into considering the average person as a Consumer. When someone on the left makes the statement above, even they are accepting that consumer framing. The people sitting in the cab with the levers of power speak of us, the people, as consumers, i.e. those who take and never give. The self appointed locomotive engineers graciously hand out their hard earned gains to us “consumers” to keep the engine turning. Too bad the engineers decided to outsource their own job to Elon Musk, they must’ve figured it’d be cheaper that way. They definitely don’t want to be held responsible when the train pulls into Treblinka, but they’ll be dammed if they aren’t going to keep collecting that sweet engineer’s paycheck.

I posit the following: There is no ethical participation under Capitalism, not for the Workers, not for the Managers, and most definitely not for Capital.

The Worker who works for slave wages and turns around and buys cheap clothes from Amazon or Wal Mart himself buys slave made goods. He perpetuates both the exploitation of the foreign slave and works against his own self interest by feeding the international competition that pushes wages ever lower in the singular, international labor market. Interesting that capital can flow freely across national boundaries, but not labor. I wonder why?

Do I know of this mythical Worker who plies his trade against his own self-interest? Well of course I know him, he’s me. So long as this Worker keeps working under the current system, he perpetuates the very system destroying him.

Next up to bat we have the Manager. The Manager demands ever higher amounts of productivity from ever shrinking numbers of Workers while paying ever smaller wages for the work rendered. These folks in the Professional-Managerial Class are our temporarily embarrassed millionaires, and their current class leader is Chuck Schumer, but to be fair to young Chuck, he isn’t alone. Leadership is diffuse. The Democratic Party Old Guard represent the interests of the Managerial Class, though they are representing very poorly these days.

The problem now for the Professional-Managerial Class is Capital is now directly after them and theirs, and those folks of the Managerial Class with two eyes and ~three brain cells can see where the train’s going, and where they are sitting on that train. Thus even a number of Managers are getting onto Chuck’s case, but as can be seen with California’s proposed ballot initiative the “Luigi Mangione Act”, many if not most of these Managers still think the status quo, with a few minor adjustments, will save them. It won’t. Neo-liberal Managerialism is dead, long live the King.

The Workers have a problem here. So long as those in the Professional-Managerial Class look to the Capitol Class with bated breath, awaiting their Golden Ticket into the great Country Club in the Sky, that Managerial Class will betray the Working Class. Mind you, it most definitely is a betrayal. After all, there really is only one Class, the Human Class. We are all human, aren’t we?

One could call me a fool for attempting solidarity with the Managers and a hypocrite for saying they only have three brain cells when I like most Workers should only have two. Jokes on them, I have four, the two working cells I stole from my last employer, though my act of theft may have led to his decision to vote for Trump.

Others may find the name of the Professional-Managerial Class to be confusing. We can workshop the idea, maybe give this class concept a new, cool, foreign name. Maybe the French have a good word for it. We’ve already stolen so much from so many others, what’s one more word?

I have saved the best for last, the Capital Class. Where do we find the Capitol Class? Many Workers first look close to home, eying their eternal President of Small Family Business Co., Inc., LLC, Ltd., Etc., Etc. as the Capitalist Enemy. Nothing could be further from the truth. I understand, our good friend the President is a terrible manager, but he is a Manager nonetheless. The President doesn’t really own anything, and is likely leveraged up to his eye balls. That nice home and yacht down in Florida probably have notes on them.

The thing is Managers are not the ones in charge here, so who then does our Managerial President answer to? Who is Capital? The banks of course. Our Benefactor at Small Family Business Co., Inc., LLC. Ltd., Etc., Etc. has a line of credit with one or more banks and uses his accounts receivable as collateral. He needs that line of credit to make payroll every week or every other week, and he pays himself from that same line. The President’s business profits are really just his salary for managing Small Family Business, drawn from a loan paid off using the fruits of the Worker’s labor.

Our most excellent President has a problem though, no matter how much he styles himself the Boss, he’s not the Boss. Capitol is loaning him the money, so Capital gets the final say in how the business runs. The banks took a look at the day-to-day operations of Small Family Business and did not like the way the Old Guard Managers ran the place, so meet the New Boss, same as the Old Boss.

The new boss gets to work implementing a proper bank run business, maximizing short-term profits, cutting labor overhead, streamlining the decision-making process. Well the new boss and his party were supposed to implement the banking plan, the banks are just now beginning to see the New Boss is an idiot and his party a bunch of sniveling cowards. Trouble also is what parts of the plan that do get implemented, like going lean on labor, have a deleterious effect on Small Family Business, as these policies have done to all of the bankrupt businesses that have come before.

When we cut all costs to zero, especially labor which is the true source of productivity, what state are we left in? Inanition, or starvation if you prefer. Small Family Business starves from lack of productivity, the Workers just starve.

Despite what I tell you, the banks are not Capitol though. The Workers are Capitol. We the People already own the means of production, we simply need the political will to use eminent domain to reinstate what’s already ours.

Some may read this screed and accuse me of Communism. This is hardly the case. You’ll never catch me wearing the hammer and sickle. To use those symbols is cultural appropriation, and we as the American people should come up with our own symbols. Maybe we can call our movement Sparkle Motion. I put it to the artists here in the US to get to work on this, don’t worry, I’ll pay you in exposure.

Forgive any spelling inconsistencies, English is my first language.