on the logic of budget cuts and hiring freezes

And so the scapegoat mythology of "Hunt the Parasite" - the lynchpin of the crisis ideology - comes to the fore... A sort of vague egalitarianism emerges, which scrutinizes the income of the clerical worker, the student, and the tertiary worker, and says nothing, for example, about the transformation of capital-which-is-productive-of-interest: in its most shameful form, this egalitarianism assumes tones of workerist chauvinism. It appears that it is no longer capital that exploits the worker but the postman, the milkman, and the student. These are the first shots in that "class analysis" which will become the official ideology and the preferred argument of the super-paid editorial writers of the Regime's press. It is a crude and effective ideology...

-Sergio Bologna, "A Tribe of Moles," 1977