Blog 18 - 'Class' now in title
- A System Analyst
- Dec 20, 2025
- 3 min read
Updated: Dec 22, 2025
Standard Header - Current politics de-mystified by the basic relationships explained in ‘Us, Politics, The System, Class.’
The Blog resumed here after a hiatus. It will now run to a flexible schedule, no longer to the 'every Friday' one.
No festive references spring to mind so straight to business - literally. This work is now titled ‘Us, Politics, The System, Class’ (was Us, Politics and The System). The work has had many titles but it’s not been including the key conclusion of examining us, politics and the system – that class is central. Class defined, of course, by role in the production process, not simplistically by income or culture. Starting with recognising the existence and role of the business class, the most organised and powerful group in society, far better organised, conscious of their rights and interests and capable of promoting them than the rest – the working/worker/employed class. So class needs to be in the title and now is, from v. 2025.20.
But you don’t get that in most discussion. For example, in the huge number of social media posts people in America make about Trump, most of it is about him and his attack on democracy or his nuttiness. That, and him, is the immediate problem, but it’s about much more than him. People make some mention of billionaires, the Heritage Foundation and the like, as well. Maybe of the Republicans, of conservative politicians. But never the base problem – the mass conservative movement including millions of ordinary business people and individualistic workers pushing business rights and wealth and how it co-opts many people into supporting the people who are the main cause of their problems. It’s the same with Farage and Reform in the Uk – deeper than their racism, they are a conservative party, a business class party, and that’s what we need to be saying about them.
Instead, with all the hostility to outsiders like migrants and asylum seekers - and the encouraging defence of them – and with all the talk of the Budget and taxes, and public services - no mention of real class, starting with the business class. Instead, a lot of people disregarding that and just saying all politicians are the same, as if Starmer, even with his faults, can be just replaced by ‘trying’ Farage and Reform. A mistake many Americans made about replacing Biden with Trump.
The working class – again, properly defined by role in the production process - don’t see the business class, and mostly don’t know themselves either as the working class.
In a forthcoming blog I will explore conservative ideas about how society should work, and how conservatives get mass support for them, that explain how the business class induce many people – prominently Trump and Farage supporters - to support them and put their parties in government despite them being hostile to their interests. It will probably be called ‘The American D…elusion’.
So - please note the title change to ‘Us, Politics, The System, Class.’
And also note - the new web address www.uspol.org. It’s easier to remember and pass on to other people and takes you to the existing website – still www.uspoliticsandthesystem.org
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