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Anti-rich actions: these environmental activists who are reinventing the class struggle

2022-12-09T14:39:51.698Z


ECOLOGY AND POLITICS, IGNITION (3/4) - Used by activists and associations, anti-rich rhetoric is also taking hold in the political class. A part of the left sees in it in particular the occasion to update its Marxist theses of the past.


From the golf course, behind the wheel of their imposing 4x4 or comfortably seated in the air… the alleged “climate criminals” are everywhere.

So, armed with supposed common sense, new activists, self-proclaimed “climate vigilantes”, set off on their heels.

Convinced that innovation and progress will not save them, they see only one solution: to eliminate certain ways of life, deemed incompatible with a virtuous society.

Armed with anti-rich slogans, and brandishing the heat waves of this summer, the activists are deploying.

Last August, they ransacked the lawns of golf courses to denounce their watering in times of drought.

Regularly, SUV deflators also work to puncture tires.

All to penalize those they portray as “polluters” with ostentatious signs of wealth, hindering access to a greener planet.

Other actions are planned in the coming months, in particular against luxury boats.

We are witnessing a somewhat retro staging of anti-capitalist movements

», Analyzes the sociologist Jean Viard.

A form of class struggle 2.0, which risks increasing the tensions of an already fractured society and crystallizing the positions of an increasingly caricatural debate.

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Source: lefigaro

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