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The Dispossessed: The Working Classes and Their Instinct For Survival
Recent decades have witnessed protests that are unlike many of the social movements of previous centuries. They are not led by any party, union or leader, but by ordinary people. Their deep roots are existential rather than material.
These protests are not driven by class consciousness or ideology but by the sense that people have been abandoned, stripped of their rights and shunted out to the peripheries of social and economic life. This is the movement of the dispossessed – of a mass of ordinary people who have gained a will of their own and are no longer content to comply with the directives of elites who want to tell them how to live and behave. The high-profile political events of recent years – Brexit, the election of Trump, the rise of right-wing parties – are merely surface tremors of a much deeper tectonic shift caused by the slow displacement of a forgotten continent.
In this book Christophe Guilluy uncovers this forgotten continent of the dispossessed and shows how ordinary people are rising up and responding to their programmed disappearance by forging an alternative to a doomed model.
These protests are not driven by class consciousness or ideology but by the sense that people have been abandoned, stripped of their rights and shunted out to the peripheries of social and economic life. This is the movement of the dispossessed – of a mass of ordinary people who have gained a will of their own and are no longer content to comply with the directives of elites who want to tell them how to live and behave. The high-profile political events of recent years – Brexit, the election of Trump, the rise of right-wing parties – are merely surface tremors of a much deeper tectonic shift caused by the slow displacement of a forgotten continent.
In this book Christophe Guilluy uncovers this forgotten continent of the dispossessed and shows how ordinary people are rising up and responding to their programmed disappearance by forging an alternative to a doomed model.
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144 pages, Hardcover
First published October 19, 2022
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February 18, 2023
Christophe est en colère et ça se sent, le style a bien changé depuis les fractures françaises.
Il dit des choses intéressantes, et il y a une critique acerbe du centrisme. Des passages un peu naïfs, étrangement.
Après, ce phénomène commence à avoir été analysé en long, en large et en travers, on a un peu l'impression de toujours relire les mêmes choses. Les anglo-saxons cependant en font des analyses beaucoup plus fines.
Il dit des choses intéressantes, et il y a une critique acerbe du centrisme. Des passages un peu naïfs, étrangement.
Après, ce phénomène commence à avoir été analysé en long, en large et en travers, on a un peu l'impression de toujours relire les mêmes choses. Les anglo-saxons cependant en font des analyses beaucoup plus fines.
November 23, 2024
Muy interesante reflexión del autor francés sobre su tema preferido: el común. Avanza respecto a los anteriores libros postulando una solución a lo que acontece en Europa. Volver a poner a la gente común en el centro de todo y no dejarse llevar por la ideología burguesa en sus dos vertientes.
February 1, 2023
Indispensable
November 1, 2023
De tant radical amb la revolució de les majories se'ns mou els capítols finals cap al neofeixisme i welfare chauvinisme. Sap greu.
February 14, 2025
ma puce, dis bien tous ces termes que je les mette dans mon bol de céréales
January 8, 2026
Légèrement redondant au début mais gagne en intérêt vers le milieu. Le livre est accessible mais manque des fois de profondeur.
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