Bourgeois class interests serve no one’s genuine interests

Evidence

The moment at which Ballard’s “new proletariat” (“furnished with private schools and BMWs”) become real political actors is when they cease to pursue their own class interests. Only then can they come to the Marxist revelation that bourgeois class interests are in no one’s interests. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 161

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The inversion that middle-class revolt becomes authentically political precisely by abandoning its own class interests is genuinely paradigm-challenging.
• XREF: connects to: The bourgeoisie as a thinking subject with interests is an empty notion — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 50; Neoliberalism abolishes classes, the individual, and Lockean property in one move — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 164; Neoliberalism served interests, never grounded in economic theory

Broader Connections

• The bourgeoisie as a thinking subject with interests is an empty notion #corroborates (0.95) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 50
• Neoliberalism served interests, never grounded in economic theory #corroborates (0.80)
• Neoliberalism abolishes classes, the individual, and Lockean property in one move #expands (0.75) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 164