So yeah, borgerlig means “bourgeois” but it also means “right-wing” or more broadly just “not socialist”. And so I’ve had to hear right-wing dipshits say this election stuff like
- Vote bourgeois! (this message paid for by Some Guy With a German Last Name Joint Stock Company)
- Do you want a bourgeois victory in this election? Then you better vote for these parties!
- I could never in my life vote for the Reds, I’ll be voting bourgeois this election. Here’s to a bourgeois victory!
- Et cetera
And this is just seen as completely normal. It boggles the mind how this terminology practically rubs your face in how right-wing politics only benefit the ruling class, and yet people still end up supporting it somehow?!
I think Nordic “socialism” defenders in a lot of cases are people who only see the more superficial issues with capitalism and want a superficial solution. 80%+ chance they regularly complain about “tankies”.
I don’t think it’s so much that they only see superficial issues, more that only have a superficial analysis of why the issues exists. Thus we get some neat “redistribution” of the wealth but no analysis of the exploitation required for the wealth.
EVERY MAN A KING!
I think we more-or-less agree, they (for example) want the rich to pay their “fair share” but don’t want to dismantle them as a class.