Posted on 01/21/2019 5:17:42 PM PST by Para-Ord.45
EXCERPT:
We have a new bourgeoisie, but because they are very cool and progressive, it creates the impression that there is no class conflict anymore. It is really difficult to oppose the hipsters when they say they care about the poor and about minorities.
But actually, they are very much complicit in relegating the working classes to the sidelines. Not only do they benefit enormously from the globalised economy, but they have also produced a dominant cultural discourse which ostracises working-class people. Think of the ‘deplorables’ evoked by Hillary Clinton. There is a similar view of the working class in France and Britain. They are looked upon as if they are some kind of Amazonian tribe. The problem for the elites is that it is a very big tribe.
The middle-class reaction to the yellow vests has been telling. Immediately, the protesters were denounced as xenophobes, anti-Semites and homophobes. The elites present themselves as anti-fascist and anti-racist but this is merely a way of defending their class interests. It is the only argument they can muster to defend their status, but it is not working anymore.
Now the elites are afraid. For the first time, there is a movement which cannot be controlled through the normal political mechanisms. The gilets jaunes didn’t emerge from the trade unions or the political parties. It cannot be stopped. There is no ‘off’ button. Either the intelligentsia will be forced to properly acknowledge the existence of these people, or they will have to opt for a kind of soft totalitarianism.
A lot has been made of the fact that the yellow vests’ demands vary a great deal. But above all, it’s a demand for democracy. Fundamentally, they are democrats – they want to be taken seriously and they want to be integrated into the economic order.
spiked: How can we begin to address these demands?
Guilluy: First of all, the bourgeoisie needs a cultural revolution, particularly in universities and in the media. They need to stop insulting the working class, to stop thinking of all the gilets jaunes as imbeciles.
Cultural respect is fundamental: there will be no economic or political integration until there is cultural integration. Then, of course, we need to think differently about the economy. That means dispensing with neoliberal dogma. We need to think beyond Paris, London and New York.
France has boiled over in the past, but as long as there is bread to butter they are content.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak3DWrfVHIU
Ah, yes, hipsters ... they are such individuals that you can hardly tell them apart.
The seething tall grass in which the radicals and PC barely even bother to hide anymore. The highly educated and indoctrinated silver spoons whose only outrageous accent, to continue to borrow from Mel Brooks in round about fashion, is a jargon of radicalism of their own making and adoption.
“Either the intelligentsia will be forced to properly acknowledge the existence of these people, or they will have to opt for a kind of soft totalitarianism.”
The latter choice would be no problem for them. That’s the end-game anyway.
BTW Bartholdi’s Statue of Liberty had nothing to do with unbridled illegal immigration
I would beg to differ. The soft totalitarianism they already have. Right now, their options are to go hard or go home.
Sums it all up nice and square.
The French are very egalitarian to a point
egalitarian
The inscription was added ages later.
They are going hard.
It’s still there and is considered an integral part of ‘the statue’. It’s irrelevant when it was added.
I can’t wait for it to start here.
But the thing they’ll never admit is that the “huddled masses” were, for the most part, coming here to be Americans, for the opportunity to prosper from the sweat of their own brow.
Not to “reconquer” this country for where they came from, or to suckle from the public teat.
gilets jaunes
How is it pronounced?
Sounds like/rhymes with.
Diacritical marking just makes my brain hurt, plus they change it all the time.
No need to sound like a Frenchman, close is OK.
Recall historically what communist (hardcore leftists) do to these ‘feeling’ pantywaste posers once the commies are in control and the patsies are no longer useful — they are the first ‘up against the wall’ (shot ... not even useful in the gulags).
History has a way of smacking down attention whores.
Massive debt, printed money, and multiculturalism are weapons of mass destruction in the hands of globalists.
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