Fundraising costs gobble up most of the funds raised. Billions are spent on TV ads that have virtually no impact. Candidates may win or lose—but the consulting class always wins.
What, umm, what is the possible basis for calling it the consulting class? This is not a socio-economic strata, it’s a job/ unfortunate knock-on of citizens united, not an economic class. Is using the term ‘class’ the new hotness cause of ‘Epstein Class’? That which is itself an attempt to distance the bourgeoisie from the ‘bad apples’ (or make them all bad apples, depending who’s doing the using)
‘Class,’ as a word, has been used for longer, more commonly, and more recently, to mean a group with a shared quality. Class is like energy; both words are rather meaningless alone and need a specifier to make them useful. Just as energy can be thermal, electrical, or various other kinds of energy, but referring to energy in general is usually not sensible, one can be of a socioeconomic class, a protected class, a school class, the managerial class, a or various other kinds of class. Only the very narrow class of people who have taken a class on a bit of Marx but not a class on the classes of words used by classmates in classes on English or Programming think ‘class’ can only refer to ‘class’ delineated by socioeconomic relation to the mode of production. Ol’ Karl didn’t invent the word. He used one that already had broad use.
What, umm, what is the possible basis for calling it the consulting class? This is not a socio-economic strata, it’s a job/ unfortunate knock-on of citizens united, not an economic class. Is using the term ‘class’ the new hotness cause of ‘Epstein Class’? That which is itself an attempt to distance the bourgeoisie from the ‘bad apples’ (or make them all bad apples, depending who’s doing the using)
‘Class,’ as a word, has been used for longer, more commonly, and more recently, to mean a group with a shared quality. Class is like energy; both words are rather meaningless alone and need a specifier to make them useful. Just as energy can be thermal, electrical, or various other kinds of energy, but referring to energy in general is usually not sensible, one can be of a socioeconomic class, a protected class, a school class, the managerial class, a or various other kinds of class. Only the very narrow class of people who have taken a class on a bit of Marx but not a class on the classes of words used by classmates in classes on English or Programming think ‘class’ can only refer to ‘class’ delineated by socioeconomic relation to the mode of production. Ol’ Karl didn’t invent the word. He used one that already had broad use.