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The Revolutionary Bourgeois

Judah Grunstein | Bio | 15 Jun 2009

Another thought:

If Ahmadinejad did actually win, and the reformists end up overturning the regime, our sympathy would essentially be going to a minority-rule regime of the privileged urban elites over the rural masses. In other words, exactly the kind of revolution that progressive Americans have generally been opposed to. The '60s and '70s Latin American revolutions so popular with the American left, for instance, were the exact opposite: peasant revolutions against urban elites.

Very interesting how globalization has essentially closed the age of the proletarian/peasant revolution and restored, on a planetary scale, the original revolutionary bourgeois of the 18th century.