Tuesday, October 11, 2011

"Class Warfare"

É interessante ver as acusações dos Republicanos nos EUA ao movimento "Occupy Wall Street", dizendo que é um movimento que promove o "class warfare" (e que Obama também andará a promover o "class warfare").

É interessante porquê? É que desde os tempos de Nixon, pelo menos, que a ala conservadora nos EUA faz o discurso do "americano médio" contra os "pointy-headed intelectuals" e a "liberal elite".

Mais ou menos a esse respeito (embora escrito há 6 anos atrás), ver A (partial) Neoconservative Lexicon, por Kevin Carson:

Elites. Latte-sipping, brie-eating, Volvo-driving, little magazine-reading, effete snobs who live on the coasts, whom it is entirely permissible to attack for their privileged lifestyle. Such attacks are entirely different from the heinous crime of Class Warfare (q.v.), which no decent person will engage in.

Class Warfare. Demagogic attacks based on the entirely specious ground of unearned wealth, a sin up with which the neocons will not put. Entirely different from demagogic attacks based on cultural characteristics like the kind of food and entertainment one likes (see Elites).

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