Today's liberals dream of a workerless paradise - UnHerd

Today's liberals dream of a workerless paradise - UnHerd:

• A new book argues that that both Left and Right are now engaged in class war — against the poor

"... The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Metropolitan Elite, which argues that “Demagogic populism is a symptom. Technocratic neoliberalism is the disease”. 
Lind says that Western society feels as if it is coming apart and this is a delayed consequence of the working class losing the political power it possessed for much of the twentieth century. 
“The Cold War has been followed by the class war”, writes Lind. 
This is a war that is being waged against the working class by an ascendant caste of university-credentialed professional elites.

“Social power exists in three realms — government, the economy, and the culture,” writes Lind. 

“All three realms of Western society today are fronts in the new class war.” 

We see this class war being waged over everything from Brexit to the election of Donald Trump to the rise of an activist judiciary. 

And despite the recent populist backlash one side remains firmly on top..."

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