© RuptlyGilets Jaunes on the move. They have the wind of many legitimate grievances in their sails. Allons-y!
Comment: Though the author here is a committed socialist (which presents its own dangers to society) he presents a cogent, grounded critique of the neutered, worse-than-useless "Left" spawned by post-modern Marxism
Something's happening here...
Class Act
The "yellow vest" (gilets jaunes) movement has upended French politics, at least.
It has delivered a sharp and refreshing smack in the face to the smuggest of smug, entitled neoliberal brats, Emmanuel Macron, forcing him to retreat on substantive tax and minimum wage issues. It has also raised a raft of issues from wealth inequality (including demands for higher taxes on the rich) to a rejection of austerity and the dreaded Frexit.
Most importantly, it has acted outside the gatekeeping of traditional opposition parties and institutions-including those of the left, which have all been thoroughly decaffeinated and beguiled by the fantasia of Third-Way EU becoming "Social Europe." The Yellow Vest movement is millions of people out in the street, engaged in militant, confrontational protest, talking to and acting with each other unsupervised, telling the governing elite: "Va te faire foutre!".
A self-mobilization of the working class: This is the specter of Europe past, which Third-Way politicians and intelligentsia thought they had once and for all banished to the netherworld a few decades ago. The Yellow Vest movement, now spreading to other countries, is striking a new body blow to the teetering edifice of neoliberalism that has been built on the bones of the working-class lives in Europe and America over those decades.
Comment: It seems vegans are actually good for something.
It's amazing that vegans, who think themselves peaceful and caring, seem to be the first to issue death threats to people who don't share their twisted ideological views.
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