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bloomingeek 5 days ago

Just finished a book about the Hundred Years War, before that, one on the Thirty Years War. Both have a glaring similarity, the "weak people" were consistently plundered, raped and killed by the "strong" people.

When will the working class people understand that the elite are just a few bad decisions away from their total destruction? (Here in the US we seem to be on some kind of precipice.)

crooked-v 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Of course, many of those "strong people" were themselves peasants who joined up with mercenary companies to support themselves after their own livelihoods were destroyed by warring armies.

Ray20 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

>Here in the US we seem to be on some kind of precipice.

Aren't working class people in the US just recently choose the most anti-elite candidate possible just because (and fuck the consequences, let it all burn in hell)?

Working class people are understanding that the elite are just a few bad decisions away from their total destruction. And now they WILL make THE OTHERS to understand this.

astrange 5 days ago | parent [-]

The people you mentioned aren't working class, they're wealthy but blue-collar, ie petit-bourgeois or local gentry.

Though Americans don't have class consciousness anyway, or if they do it's based on style of consuming and not working.