class struggle, year zero

For months, even years, we have been listening to the right fulminating about the uselessness of the idea of class struggle, while the left remained either silent or ridiculous on the subject. Last July 10, Christine Lagarde once again declared that “class struggle was important for history books”. Yet it isn’t certain that the right feels as much contempt as it claims for this strange concept, invented and reinvented by the very people who are undoing it day by day. And it is even less certain that a supposedly modern left can be rebuilt on its denial. A new line opens without certainty.

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[to be continued…]