It’s simplistic to arbitrarily brand an entire ‘social liberal’ government of being of the same [bourgeois?] class, to the point where it’s often untrue even if the result is the same. Many of the politicians don’t really benefit from homeless people existing.
I’d say a more accurate statement is that due to the interrelation of economics and political governance, they’re beholden to the capitalist class, and therefore are pressured to accommodate. An important distinction is that this doesn’t suggest a ‘well what if we had politicians from our class instead?’ line of thinking.
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas.
The political elite in bourgeois society are carrying out a program in accord with the economic interests of the bourgeoisie, even if the rulers themselves are not technically of that class, though many of them are.
It’s simplistic to arbitrarily brand an entire ‘social liberal’ government of being of the same [bourgeois?] class, to the point where it’s often untrue even if the result is the same. Many of the politicians don’t really benefit from homeless people existing.
I’d say a more accurate statement is that due to the interrelation of economics and political governance, they’re beholden to the capitalist class, and therefore are pressured to accommodate. An important distinction is that this doesn’t suggest a ‘well what if we had politicians from our class instead?’ line of thinking.
Marx basically agrees:
The political elite in bourgeois society are carrying out a program in accord with the economic interests of the bourgeoisie, even if the rulers themselves are not technically of that class, though many of them are.