The real struggle isn’t proletariat vs bourgeois. It’s between high-status elites and wealthy elites. When their cooperation breaks, revolution.
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Replying to @naval @QuasLacrimas
This is precisely a main theme of Hobsbawm’s Age of Revolution https://libcom.org/files/Eric%20Hobsbawm%20-%20Age%20Of%20Revolution%201789%20-1848.pdf …pic.twitter.com/BzL9UpDwQS
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Replying to @toad_spotted @naval
The old-school Marxist analysis where nobility=status and bourgeois=wealth makes me skeptical. The bourgeoisie had a pretty solid hold on culture imho
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