The ideology of capitalism – V (Final)

The ideology of capitalism; Liberalism and Socialism personalities

1. The Liberal Personality
2. RÊBER APO – From the book “To insist on socialism is to insist on humanity”
3. What is Liberalism
4. The characteristics of the liberal personalities 

5. Petit bourgeois and middle class

In our struggle today, we are facing a growing demon in society that poses the greatest danger to the revolution. We can say that especially in Rojava (west) and Bakur (north), but in general in all regions of struggle, the class that is the biggest obstacle to the revolution is the petty bourgeoisie class, the middle class. According to Marxist literature, during the class struggle of feudalism, the bourgeois class is called the middle class.

At that time, the main ruling class is the aristocracy (king, landlord, landowner, etc.). The bourgeoisie moves to power, it wants to destroy the feudal system and develop a system that corresponds to the characteristics of the bourgeois class. Today the middle class is the petty bourgeoisie, but we should not fall into the mistake of trying to define this class only by its material-economic basis. Nowadays, class boundaries are not as sharp and clear as they used to be.

Things have become confused and intertwined. We want to talk more about the understanding and consciousness of this class. In this sense, a peasant and worker can also behave like a petty bourgeois and possess the characteristics of the middle class.

In essence, who is the petty bourgeois?

Those who live the culture of the bourgeois class like to be bourgeois and want to become bourgeois. They are somewhat removed from the material living conditions of the proletariat and represent an intermediate class, that is, a middle class. They are in the society, like the bourgeois-capitalist, but they are not completely apart from the society, however, the middle class is always trying to become rich and grow and therefore it is open to everything and they in no way lose their status.

Since the measure of merit in this system is not labor itself, but theft, robbery and deception, they can practice treason and collaborate with the enemy. During the revolution, the middle class is the one that positions itself in society, most against the revolution. They are opportunistic, they do not go into the struggle. They stay in the middle and stand with those who are stronger, who get more results.

They always look for a compromise with the enemy and are fearful and cowardly until the end. They are very radical in easy times, but in difficult times they seem not to be, because they know how to hide and camouflage their truth. The personality of this class is completely liberal and contains all the characteristics of a liberal personality.

Some characteristics of the petty-bourgeois and bourgeois personality:

• Imitates the external, so it does not live itself, it imitates the capitalist/ bourgeois class;
• Selfish;
• Is opportunistic, that is, she shuns conflict and adapts to her environment, like a flag in the wind, whichever way the wind blows, it goes;
• Their line is not clear, they do not join the struggle in the revolution with everything, always has one foot in the present system;
• Lives from the work of other people, but distinguishes itself with this work;
• Dreamy, i.e. lives in dreams that are far from the reality of life;
• Complains and laments, but does not see itself as a part of it, does not propose a solution;
• Liar and a demagogue;
• Emotional and gives up quickly;
• Always waits for some people to deal with;
• Likes themselves (ego);
• There is no fight and resistance in them, they can be very radical, but does not put it into practice;
• The style of this class: they show themselves modern and progressive, but they are not clear, soft, without principles, not productive, populist and unstable.

A second brochure continuation will be made as it approaches and analyse the socialist personality.