Blog 3 - Blog frequency

It's long been intended to post frequently so people can trust there'll be something new to see if they log on. And because there is always something current that can be explained by what's in this work. It's always been delayed by necessary improvements to the actual work but hopefully it will happen soon and at least one blog a week is the aim.

Here's the latest improvements, the webtext/start of the work -

All over, people are angry because of not getting what they feel they are entitled to. They think governments run things so they look to politics for answers. But they also accept the free market system. And this is where incomes and wealth are mostly decided - where we work and trade to produce and exchange goods and services. And the point of free markets is that politicians don’t control them. So governments have only a limited role in people getting what they need, and we also need to look closely at the system. At us, politics and the system.

Everyone calls it capitalism but that obscures the main things about how it works. This work explains it.

We need to see that free markets, by limiting politician’s power to manage the economy, leaves business people free to use their power in them for their benefit and against everybody else’s. A recent example of people not knowing this - some Americans blamed the Democrats for the cost of living and chose Trump instead. But he represents those who are responsible - business people, especially the big ones.

And we need to see that politics doesn’t construct this system, except in state-run economies. To see that it’s the other way round - people build politics from it, from their role and interests in it. And that ordinary people don't get what they are entitled to from it, and progressives don't get the decent society they want, because the business class put more into seeing where their interests lie in it and into organisation and political activity, as conservatives, than they do.

They do it by claiming that the system is founded on the individual and on any individual being free to start a business. They use that to justify business people’s wealth - ‘they’re entitled to what they get.’ That might be OK for the ‘little guy.’ But it covers up how business people take wealth from the system collectively as companies, not individuals. And cover for how with volume production with large workforces, they get wealthy from work other people do for them collectively.

We have to see business people as a class. They all operate in the same way and contribute to the dominant political view that business people’s rights are sacred. They all support business people’s rights over worker’s rights. They are the class base of conservative politics and parties. So just talking of the billionaires, ‘oligarchs’ or ‘the’1%’ obscures how it’s the whole business class that achieves the wide acceptance of business people’s rights, and the political support for them, that allows them to run the world. As in the USA right now.

As a foundation for politics and getting what we are entitled to, we need a clear view of these basic political and trading relationships. This work provides one.              (End of website text.)

But everybody, including commentators and politicians, takes how we relate in politics and how we trade with each other for granted, ignore the basic facts of how we interact, and flail about, arguing about the wrong issues and blaming innocent people and each other.