One thing I hate about the ''big versus small'' businesses stuff.
The interests of large and small businesses coincide more than they oppose each other.
The National Federation of Independent Business and the US Chamber of Commerce are on the same side of most policy issues.
Small businesses owners & corporate CEOs or investors alike are more likely to be Republicans.
All of capitalist industry, big and small, are on the same side.
Small businesses play a crucial role in maintaining expoitation and putting a friendly face upon grievous injustice.
This is also a contradiction.
Small businesses help broaden support for injustice as well as the conservative political preferences of capital, but at the same time, the destruction of small businesses is (to some degree) necessary for the furtherance of profit.
The continual advance of capitalist profit must eventually cannibalize the structures holding the capitalist economy together.
The large owners of capital themselves are numerically small, relatively speaking.
The owners of small capital (small business) number in the millions and often provide a broad enough support base for regressive policies such as low levels of taxation and lack of paid leave.
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A basic introduction to the old Swedish model and Ernst Wigforss 🔥 ❤️
Ernst Wigforss argued for a classless society on the basis that it was morally and spiritually healing. The gross class distinctions of capitalism eat away at the spirit of man and the only way to heal them is economic democracy.
As mentioned, the Swedish Social Democrats also interpreted a socialist planned economy to mean control over investment & production structure.
Many 20th century socialists did not associate a planned economy with a command economy that reaches to every price on the store shelf.
Chad communists in 1945: Yes, we're going to do a welfare state to help the workers and we are going to ally with reformist socialists
Virgin communists in 2020: NOOOO, don't help the workers and don't ally with other leftists
Here's the German Communist Party's 1930 program:
''We will operate all types of social insurance at the expense of the state (unemployment, disability, health, old-age, and accident insurance; support for disabled veterans and surviving dependents).''
They say in the book that Oceania is a rigid class society (as opposed to a socialist one with minimal class differences or no classes) and they say that the state ownership of industry is only nominal.
There is this whole spiel about 3/4 of the way through the book were the main character reads Goldstein's book.
It's basically an analysis of class society and ideology. Hardly something a capitalist conservative would think of. It's Orwell's views leaking over into the book.