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- Christophe Guilluy, what does this concept of "dispossessed" cover for you?
Christophe GUILLUY.
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This concept makes it possible to cover all the social, political and cultural disputes, whether in France today, or more generally in the West.
I had been looking for a long time for a term to talk about this ordinary majority, a term that stands out from the traditional vision of social movements, inherited from the 19th century.
We are not facing a social movement demonstrating for new rights, but facing a reaction to the implosion of what used to be called the Western middle class.
This movement is all the more powerful and unstoppable as its springs are existential, material and immaterial.
This class designated a broad social category, in average Western societies, in which everyone recognized themselves, be it the worker, the employee, the senior executives.
Even if there were still inequalities, it was…
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