I think you will find Derrida wa a Marxist too, at least in the sixties. Post-modernism is a reaction by Marxist to the failures of Marxism and Maoism. George Orwell put it best " They (socialist) don't love the poor they hate the rich".
2. In the UK the elite was primarily from a very small group - a few thousand families - when I was born. This has changed as the UK became more like a meritocracy under Thatcher (they hated her for that!) But further change is needed.
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Nothing about Thatcher’s reforms were meritocratic. She ruined the rail system and directly led to dozens of accidents.
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1. Not directly, but that was the result. She broke up many institutions like the City of London and nationalised industries and open the door to the ambitious middle and working class. She made lots of mistakes to deindustrialisation and not valuing society being just two.
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