How do you best again the conscious middle class? Not on the piano or klippkortet of the therapist or the ecological bag, but on its any romanticism of the subclass.
this is also the French writer Édouard Louis to congratulate to a successful ceremony, it is clear from his text in DN Culture (7/12). For he, who, in their books write at the same time brutal and nuanced about her childhood in the French countryside subclass, he is now quite lyrical over the yellow vests, les gilets jaunes, all over the country demonstrated against the height of the gasoline and diesel tax.
think that what they are doing is good in the thing. No, no. There have been several incidents that have been both racist and homophobic, ” he points out. And yes, there have been some other violence also, in the yellow västarnas name. But – he says – what is their violence against the violence that is committed against them?
They are his noble savages, the martyrs, and their suffering clean.
They are ”bodies that almost never appears in public and media room, bodies in pain, ravaged by work, of fatigue, of hunger, of the dominerandes permanent humiliation of the dominated, of the social and spatial exclusion”, they remind him of his father and his destroyed back.
To oppose against them is to say: ”Tig, the poor!” According To Édouard Louis. As a whole class, as in France, the subject of millions of people, to one and the same person, that speaks with a single voice: his father’s.
that is so derogatory, so mocking: It doesn’t matter what the yellow vests do. Édouard Louis don’t care about what they say. Only they are white men with injuries so they are right. They are his noble savages, the martyrs, and their suffering is clean. He sees them from above, such as the middle class has always considered the people under them. Fascinated. A little enviously. What passionate they are, they are down there. So alive. As well as authentic. See, now, they take to the streets again!
But the yellow vests are a motley crowd. All didn’t even want to stop the increase of petrol and diesel. In some places they have even made common cause with the environmental movement. Most people want to play the trumpet, or handing out flowers, or fire up some cars and fighting. Yes, this is a grassroots movement, of good and evil, and to the extent that it can be summed up, it is like a shapeless protest against president Emmanuel Macron itself.
deserving of criticism, by its arrogance, and its contempt for the poor – the kind of contempt that comes of lack of experience and lack of imagination. Desperate the unemployed are responding to he by to see them in the eyes and say that everything is about to make the effort, ”I would be able to go across the street and find a job to you”.
in addition, He has shown very little understanding for the fact that a height of the gasoline and diesel tax, in particular, against poor people in the countryside. They must be offered options. But in the thing he has right: this green tax is necessary.
to get rid of in France, at least not in the near future. Where have the yellow vests prevailed now, as Édouard Louis so triumphantly predicted: the Rise of petrol and diesel will be stopped.
In a speech to the nation promised president Emmanuel Macron also to raise the minimum wage a bit and scrap the planned tax increase for retirees, as well as the tax on overtime. He also urged employers to hand out christmas bonus to their employees, look completely tax-free, this should now be.
the long, where and overlooked, the common people, make their mark politically in the increasingly segregated in France. No one has listened to them, what they have in common with their sisters and brothers in many other countries, even such countries that have long been considered prosperous. Now they have the power ear.
But to completely stop important environmental measures is actually not at all a victory for the sub-class, but most of all sad. It is, after all, not the rich elite, or even the klimatångestridna the middle class, who will pay the highest price when the earth burns.
