Care for Women?

‘The 1%’ – a populist vernacular for the contemporary oligarchical globalist ruling class, dubbed in academic terms as the Transnational Capitalist Class (‘TCC’) (Sklair 2001) – does not care for the vast majority of women. Instead, they see them as slaves and a means to their end(s). It’s no secret that they outsource cheap labour to third world and developing nations, where many women find themselves trapped in sweatshop labour slavery, working long hours and in excessively repetitive dehumanizing work for an absolute pittance. In Western countries they disingenuously ‘support’ the liberal feminist movement, not for its genuinely progressive political and social features, but for entirely the wrong and immoral reasons. Some of these ‘reasons’ are to get more of the populace in ‘the productive’ workforce to effectively double taxation income streams and GDP; to overwork twice the populace than previously; to reproduce the worker at half the cost, since real wages have been in decline; to put strain on and undermine the nuclear family unit; to get children from couples into state care earlier to undermine familial and home education; and to create gender hostility and more pronounced gender competition in forcing women to compete against men in the job market instead of enacting gender quotas in industry, profession, vocation, and education. This happens whilst the male dominated TCC’s women do not have to be in the workforce and passive income streams generated allow for family time and informal familial education for their offspring. This has the combined effect of decreasing social mobility whilst economic and socio-economic inequality increases through monopoly and cartel capitalism – and increasingly the erosion of liberal capitalism and in its place, the implementation of state capitalist political and economic architecture. Let’s not forget that the TCC being male dominant is disproportionately responsible for skewing the gender pay gap, more so than any other group of people.

The TCC is “the global social stratum that controls supranational instruments of the global economy such as transnational corporations and heavily influences political organs such as the World Trade Organization.” (Wikipedia)

Sklair (2016, p. 499) finds there are four fractions to the TCC:

1. Those who own and control the major transnational corporations (TNCs) and
   their local affiliates (corporate fraction);
2. Globalizing politicians and bureaucrats (political fraction);
3. Globalizing professionals (technical fraction);
4. Merchants and media (consumerist fraction).

Saleam explains the Australia-specific and internationalist contemporary rise of the TCC:

“the State has been progressively recast after the 1975 ‘putsch’ [in Australia], with integrated policies to achieve economic-internationalization, apply liberal-authoritarian methods against opposition…to develop a ‘Transnational Capitalist Class’” (1999, p. 5)

We should note that neoliberalism is the TCC’s dominant (outward public) ideology, but it is fast allying itself to state-capitalist measures (inward private-covert) as political power is becoming increasingly centralized and despotic in Western countries.

The TCC reproduce a politics of exclusion and disempowerment. It’s not that I don’t respect the 1%’s thirst for knowledge, it’s the totally immoral ways in which they use and deploy their accrual and capitalizations in knowledge. Increasingly, as is intended, their political maneuvering is becoming more despotic by the day as liberties are ‘traded’ for heightened ‘security’ and ensuing centralizations of political power. This is all made possible through an utterly disgusting level of economic and socio-economic inequality and disparity. A disparity which is severe, perverse and socially and politically corrupting, and thoroughly criminal: the condemning of peoples – including most women – to acute exploitation all over the world is not victimless, nor morally neutral, and not legitimize-able (neologism) phenomena.

Gender and class consciousness is absolutely integral here – even for the first world middle-class whose wealth is fast eroding – under real threat. The elite are power-hungry and we should not project our morality (erroneously) on their psychopathic quest for world domination. This elitist quest is absolutely not benign, and is as old as ‘civilisation’ itself. The endgame is an imperial state-capitalist corporatocracy centralized world government where finance capital, as the dominant faction of capital, rules all over the world with a docile global populace of workers – micro-chipped, with no real social mobility on offer. Elites will augment their own cognitive powers through splicing their genes with animals for different kinds of new sensory knowledges and intelligences, and for enhanced memory capabilities, as well as nanotech and biotech brain enhancements, and technological techniques in cloning and life-extension. All these will be ȕber-expensive biological enhancements / technologies simply not affordable for the masses of people. A new insidious classism, in the vein of Brave New World, will fracture the human species along biotech lines, if the masses do not organize themselves into rank-and-file workers’ councils with an emancipatory political party – the truest organs of libertarian socialism, see my blog post on why socialist countries – through the lens of the Russian revolution – have failed in constructing a genuinely socialist politics and social justice.

Does and/or did ‘the 1%’ know, see and/or call themselves by this term as their numerical-fractional organisational principle/thesis? Did the public simply just catch on? Food for thought! 🤠

Rise up!

References

Saleam, J 1999, ‘The Other Radicalism. An Inquiry into Contemporary Australian Extreme Right Ideology. Politics and Organization 1975-1995’, Department Of Government And Public Administration, University of Sydney, Australia.

Sklair, L 2001, The Transnational Capitalist Class, Wiley.

Sklair, L 2016, Transnational Capitalist Class – Theory and Empirical Research, <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311577605_The_Transnational_Capitalist_Class/link/59f5ae920f7e9b553ebc001c/download&gt;

Wikipedia, ‘Transnational Capitalist Class’, <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnational_capitalist_class&gt;