“While there are telephone lines of generals and secret services between America, China and Russia, there are no such lines between the parties to the class conflict,” I wrote a few days ago.
But maybe it’s not so bad. In the 1950s and 1960s, sociology of social systems was widely promoted in America , which was concerned, among other things, with examining whether seemingly anti-social phenomena actually contributed to the functioning of the system, i.e. society as a whole. This was very frustrating for the various rebel groups, because it was shown that their activities not only did not threaten the ruling class, but on the contrary even stabilized the existing power situation. After all, I have been writing the same thing about the Czech “alternative” for quite a long time.
If we were to look at class conflicts through the lens of the sociology of the social system, we would find the phone lines. They consist of officials of the ruling party and officials of the principled opposition doing business together.
Ideally, they could lead to the fact that, even though each is kicking for his own team, there is a degree of trust between them and a common interest in making the country work. Both sides then tame their biggest radicals.
But what if it takes the form that the richer party simply buys the officials of the poorer party? Or is their common interest in Cayman Islands accounts and Florida villas and they can write off the Czech Republic?
