The Great Class Swap is a philosophical response to the societal problem that too much wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few while too much population growth is in the underclass, with both trends squeezing out the middle. The Great Class Swap is a social experiment in which wealth is redistributed from the top to the mases while the wealthy repopulate the mases. Simply put, it’s a fusion of economic egalitarianism favoring the poor and middle, but with eugenics favoring the genes from the top. Overall, the Great Class Swap is more of a thought experiment, philosophical outlook, and metric to judge a society by than a political agenda.
The Great Class Swap rejects both liberal egalitarianism and radical individualism, as well as the capitalist meritocratic ideal and Social Darwinism. The Great Class Swap is also a more honest framework than populism, as it does not overly fetishize the common man moralistically. Rather it assess the attributes of various groups, as well as seeks better resource allocation. There is some overlap with producerism, which favors the middle and views both the top and bottom as parasitic. There are also parallels to Plato’s belief in proportional inequality, as well as to Aristotle’s simultaneous belief in a strong middle class and eugenics.
The Great Class Swap is compatible with a Tucker Calrson-like message that the foundation of society is middle class people being able to form families. However, the kind of mass middle class homogeneous, egalitarian, society of the 1950s is not coming back, and especially not with normie conservative political solutions. The only way to recreate that kind of society would likely be via extreme statist measures. The 1950s had strong government programs that invested in the middle class with very high taxes on the wealthy. This model requires both nationalist and communitarian values which I just don’t see returning to America.
There are also comparisons to early 20th Century progressives, who were for social programs to help the poor, while also supporting eugenics and immigration restriction, such as Margaret Sanger. While any ideology can be dangerous if taken to an extreme, the Great Class Swap should represent nuance and dualism which is missing in all modern political discourse. For instance, the philosophy is concerned about dysgenics, but also inequality and cuts people slack for personal failings, which sets it apart from both the modern left and right, a radical centrism.
