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182. Riots in France: Not Just About Pension Reforms

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The Politics of Individualism

The far right and the more fascistic view of this is individuality goes against productivity. That's why liberalism was so successfully implemented under Pinochet because it was neglecting all these, all these people's individuality by beating them into working. You know, in France, we saw that we saw the workers of the of the rubbish picking, the people who pick up rubbish in Paris were literally beaten into their vehicles by police when they refused to go to work. So it's a very smooth and slippery slope towards very authoritarian government when you threaten the capital or the ruling class.

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