I’ve been thinking that we should probably find another term then “dictatorship of the bourgeoisie”. Not because it’s wrong but because people don’t know who bourgeoisie are anymore.
My proposal is “electoral dictatorship of the billionaires”, even tho it might be slightly misleading.
I agree with this sentiment. In general, I think that leftist political ideas are quite popular when you swap out the leftist terminology. “The real culture war is between the shareholders and the workers” doesn’t raise a person’s guard like “The bourgeoisie are oppressing the proletariat”. It also forces you to explain a little about your meaning to somebody who maybe doesn’t already know what these terms mean. Whenever I’m trying to talk politics with someone who is open-minded but not explicitly leftist, I try to use this tactic so I don’t immediately run into a wall of conditioned responses.
I’ve been thinking that we should probably find another term then “dictatorship of the bourgeoisie”. Not because it’s wrong but because people don’t know who bourgeoisie are anymore.
My proposal is “electoral dictatorship of the billionaires”, even tho it might be slightly misleading.
I agree with this sentiment. In general, I think that leftist political ideas are quite popular when you swap out the leftist terminology. “The real culture war is between the shareholders and the workers” doesn’t raise a person’s guard like “The bourgeoisie are oppressing the proletariat”. It also forces you to explain a little about your meaning to somebody who maybe doesn’t already know what these terms mean. Whenever I’m trying to talk politics with someone who is open-minded but not explicitly leftist, I try to use this tactic so I don’t immediately run into a wall of conditioned responses.