For the past five years, MB has berated the emergence of Australia’s Fake Left commentariat as it obsessed over minor social policy battles while a broader class war gutted worker’s wages. Finally today the Fake Left appears to be awakening. The driver is the ALP putting wages on the agenda, forcing until now socially focused commentary to consider the class war that has developed at the heart of the Australian economy.
Typical of this is Crikey which has been building into a swing of perspective for a few weeks. Bernard Keane finally spelled it out Friday:
Bill Shorten, presenting his plans to reform industrial relations to lift wages growth, told Australia’s business elite this week that “getting wages moving isn’t a war-cry for class warriors”. Except, it should be. Wage stagnation in Australia, as in other economies, is an act of class war. It’s a war started by powerful corporations and enabled by their political and media allies.
