Entitlementariat -- that's a new word to me. Although, entitlementarianism appears to have been around a while to identify the belief that some people were born with a legitimate ownership or entitlement to certain things.
Michael Bargo, Jr. has applied the concept to Karl Marx's principles in A Marxist View of the Democrats' Entitlement Economy.
Marx divided people into two classes: either bourgeoisie -- the people who owned the factories, or proletariat -- the people exploited by the bourgeoisie to work in the factories. Bargo says Marx omitted the class of people who would become dependent on government, the entitlementariats, the class that replaced the proletariat. And about the bourgeoisie, he continues:
The entitlementariat may have replaced the proletariat but then one can ask if Marx’s bourgeoisie has been replaced by the Democrat Bourgeoisie. The answer is “yes” since Democrats, not Republicans, have created the entitlementariat and they have complete power over them. And just by coincidence they use this power to transfer the wealth of the nation to themselves through campaign contributors from public sector unions and accumulation of personal wealth.
Everywhere Democrat bourgeoisie are in power, the middle-class workers are exploited and subjugated, while those who are in poverty are forced into the entitlementariat. ...
Up to now, since America is a wealthy country, it was temporarily able to afford to subsidize the entitlementariat. But no longer. The money needed to sustain the entitlementariat is obtained from national debt which will, in the long run, result in the oppression of the working class.
To paraphrase the brilliant Margaret Thatcher, the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.
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