Class warfare is a dead end

The Liberal Media is at it again. This time, Sydney Morning Herald is decrying the use of Class Warfare in its editorial.

Now Mr Howard can make his last great mark on the economy by abolishing state industrial relations commissions, which cover half the workforce, and unifying the system. He should also revisit the abolition of unfair dismissal laws, which are excessively onerous on the companies that create jobs. Labor screams class warfare whenever such reforms are proposed, and did so again this week. Serfdom for the workers.

But the Howard Government built four victories on greater prosperity for blue-collar workers, who switched parties in large numbers. A more open, less rigid economy which rewards initiative and productivity would mean more, not less, prosperity for workers, whether blue- or white-collared.

What the liberal media means by class warfare is when the workers fight back against the attacks by the bosses. The attacks by the bosses is considered to be the normal operation of the capitalist system.

The prosperity of the system is determined to be the movement of wealth from the poor to the rich - not the overall increase in wealth of the system (that may be a by-product). Anything that interferes with that is class warfare.