Tax The Rich?

From Class Charity to Class War

Morning Comrades.

All too often, our very limited capacities for the intake of information and the correct accusations of injustice by the ruling capital class, are condensed into sellable slogans that promise relief, justice even, when in truth they not only get ignored by the guilty, but, the ideas themselves ignore the systemic injustice that is inherent in the imposed dictatorship of capitalism. One that really bugs me is the idea that taxing the rich will solve all of our problems and it is one that is given way too much time in the capitalist media landscape. Predominately because it is an empty threat that relies on Bourgeois Morality rather than actual egalitarianism and it itself masks the inherent betrayal of our revolutionary purpose.

In mainstream liberal discourse, progressive taxation of the rich is often presented as a remedy for the deep economic disparities produced by capitalism. Without a doubt, IF the capital class would pay their fair share we could allocate the resources we created for them, to us and there have been times when Western societies did do that just a little more than they had to, at the threat of collective revolution against the system, yet, it solves nothing. Similar to our perceived rights, this reality can and has been altered as and how it suits them and worse even, the effort it would take to re-create a reality in which we could force a higher taxation on the Capital Class is misdirected into maintaining the systemic oppression that we call capitalism.

However, let us “argue” that such measures are fundamentally insufficient and misdirected. Rather than serving as a solution, taxation reforms often function as ideological tools to legitimise the very system that perpetuates exploitation.