
Downstream: Social Mobility Is A Lie w/ Dan Evans
Novara Media
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The New Petty Bourgeoise and the Progressive Class
The new petty bourgeois is not, I mean this isn't me being a coward and disavow in the concept, but it's not my concept. It's a concept that was first coined by UNICOS Polansas in 1975. And yeah, and I'm arguing that both those fractions of the petty bourgeoisie have grown enormously. You've got the solo self-employed key social base of the far right across Europe,. The stalwart of the conservative vote ever since Thatcher. But if you look at the stats of who votes for the Brexit party, who votes for UKIP, who voted for Le Pen, they tend to vote for the progressive parties.
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