Bourgeoisie wage war on european football
In the last year, billionaires made more than $4 trillion while Covid-19 inflicted endless suffering on lower income communities, according to the Institute for Policy Studies, as well as Americans for Tax Fairness and others. It exposed something that has continued to be a growing issue in the United States. It raises the question whether the rich have been allowed to grow to a point that is unsalvageable. We’re seeing all-time lows in top percent tax rates and corporate tax rates, historically. The influence of the rich, the bourgeoisie, is undoubted. They’ve become oligarchs controlling every facet of life, even how we navigate a pandemic, and that’s clear when American politicians choose the economy and private sector profit over the lives of Americans that should have been staying home, safe from Covid-19. It is because of the very culture and pressure from billionaires, and the corporations they own.
They don’t do what they do to help humanity. They don’t put their money towards curing cancer, or a Covid-19 education campaign, they put their money towards implanting a chip in a monkey’s brain. They put their money towards things with the promise of profit. They put their money towards a vaccine that will allow people to get back to work safely, even if daily Covid cases remain steady and a risk of mutation continues despite it. The vaccine will keep you safe. The science is indisputable. We hope you get vaccinated. If Covid cases remain consistent however, and vaccine antibodies only last a year, the corporations that stepped up to dictate the response to the pandemic with their vaccines seem to be risking a lot just to get you back to work. Maybe it’s because they don’t care about anything other than profit.
How about that “cancel culture” everyone is raving about? Realize that any character or person you can think of that has been “canceled”, was fired, or relieved; this was done by corporations. Warner Bros canceled Pepe LePew, a book publication cancelled those rare Dr Seuss books, and it was corporations that even responded with some of the most condemnation to Donald Trump’s final month in the White House. Though all of these things were logical, it’s another display of how corporations keep the very system within their grasp. They’ve grown to such inevitable power without regulation that they make every effort to control how the system operates. Now, they’re taking on the world’s most popular sport, world football.
The football community today is in turmoil after news that the biggest football clubs in the world officially announced the organization of a European Super League. Then subsequent news trickled in that domestic leagues would not allow these clubs to participate in their respective leagues if they participate in the Super League. Here’s the official statement from the English Premier League. The Super League is an effort from the richest football owners on the planet to take the historically most successful clubs in Europe and place them in their own competition, with profit motive being the deciding factor. Profit is the only reason this is happening. Financial institutions such as JPMorgan Chase & Co have underwritten an initial $4.2bn to invest in the proposed European Super League.
Where the pitfalls lie in this, is that it makes the bourgeoisie even more powerful in their world football staked claim. The European Super League is a closed competition that will funnel billions more to specific clubs, making them so much more capable of buying every top talent in the world and making leagues such as the English Premier League, Italian Serie A, and Spanish La Liga even more imbalanced. These leagues drift further from competition, and a chance for lesser clubs to compete, with the conception of a Super League. A Super League would also cause economic oppression on these leagues, teams in these leagues, and competitions such as the UEFA Champions League and Europa League. These prestigious “super” clubs coopted by their rich American owners or global capitalists do bring a positive economic impact to these competitions and thus, all of the teams that participate through advertisements, television rights, and more.
Choosing to start an elite, closed competition like the Super League harms hundreds of European football clubs, is a detriment to football culture, and breaks the hearts of billions of people who have loved this sport for a hundred years. The world has been through enough this year. People need something to support, like they do football clubs. There are few things in the world that bring the joy that this sport does to the amount of people that it does. Say no to the European Super League. Say no to allowing the rich to do whatever they want, no matter how it harms the rest of us.