Chris Dillow: Tax credits: the Bubble's failures

Chris Dillows examines Tax credits: the Bubble's failures.

[George Osborne] failed to see that big political change requires more than bums on seats in Whitehall. It rests upon broader social conditions. The Bubble, with its focus upon Westminster, under-estimates this fact. In this sense, some Corbynistas—who see that there's much more to politics than Westminster—know something the Bubble is keen to deny.

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The Capitalists are very keen for everyone to focus their political energies upon the bourgeoisie parliamentary system as the only true democratic institution. The Reformists fervently believe this.

However, political power is derived from the realisation of economic power, and is enforced and defended by the state.

Capitalists and Reformers are both very afraid of street and work-place mobilisations because the ensuring political discourse cannot be controlled to the benefit of the Capitalists. These mobilisations are either disarmed through appeal to reform, or suppressed by the state.

Yet, from these mobilisations, the revolutionary movement is built. It is when ordinary people understand politics as existing outside of parliament that revolutionary consciousness begins to grow.