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Religions > Atheism |
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"maff" |
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16 Jul 2005 03:27:45 AM |
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OT: Middle Classes |
All mod cons
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1529800,00.html
The urban radicalism of our middle-class pioneers died in the suburbs
Tristram Hunt
Saturday July 16, 2005
The Guardian
To the implacable left, one of New Labour's most persistent crimes is a
tendency "to pander to the middle classes". From academy schools to tax
cuts, Tony Blair's excesses are instantly blamed on the reactionary
bourgeoisie. But when did the middle classes join the "forces of
conservatism"? Why, as Ferdinand Mount noted, is "middle class" these
days "used as a venomous synonym for smug, unadventurous or selfish"?
For it didn't begin this way. When the middle class emerged at the end
of the 18th century, it was regarded as a revolutionary class committed
to uprooting land, church and state. But the middle classes have since
lost sight of their radical heritage - transformed from dangerous
insurgents into the docile denizens of middle England.
"middle class" OR "middle classes"
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Tristram Hunt
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/a3fbcc1c428dee93
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