Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People, one of the many heroic tableaux commemorating the bourgeoisie’s struggle against the moribund feudal order. The imagery is romantic and promises a utopia of classless brotherhood, but the social organization consolidated under bourgeois rule soon showed deep cleavages between rich and poor, and a penchant for exploitation of the lower [...]
Although the rich have waged “class warfare” for ages on the unsuspecting masses, they’re quick to denounce as “rabblerouser” anyone who raises the issues of lack of egalitarianism and deficient democracy in the U.S. In America and elsewhere, hypocrisy has always been a strong suit of those living in privilege. The McCain-Palin ticket, just like [...]
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