Yes, but you have to understand that the ruling class doesn’t merely do things that “make sense”. They care about their own personal profit over everything else, including the long-term viability of their own society. While they are able to cooperate to a certain extent to implement the likes of price controls in order to keep capitalism stable, such cooperation is always fragile and prone to collapse as soon as one capitalist decides they can make more money by undermining the other members of their class.
Class solidarity is possible for them, but is always in contradiction with their own ideology of liberal individualism. Yet individualism is a necessary part of the superstructure to reproduce the capitalist base, so they can’t just reject individualism in favor of bourgeois solidarity.
Yes, but you have to understand that the ruling class doesn’t merely do things that “make sense”. They care about their own personal profit over everything else, including the long-term viability of their own society. While they are able to cooperate to a certain extent to implement the likes of price controls in order to keep capitalism stable, such cooperation is always fragile and prone to collapse as soon as one capitalist decides they can make more money by undermining the other members of their class.
Class solidarity is possible for them, but is always in contradiction with their own ideology of liberal individualism. Yet individualism is a necessary part of the superstructure to reproduce the capitalist base, so they can’t just reject individualism in favor of bourgeois solidarity.
Quite the conundrum!