Dutch farmers’ protests offer a preview of the resistance to come as transnational “green” billionaires advance a “reset” of the global food system. The elite agenda threatens to deepen an international cost of living crisis and spark unrest well beyond The Netherlands. Ingrid de Sain is a Dutch farmer who lives in the Northern Holland town of Schellinkhout, where she and her family tend to a 62 acre farm with about 100 dairy cows. Like thousands of fellow citizens in […]
So while stanning those protests is dumb and these farmers are Pettit Bourgeois , these protests in Holland are prob the only the large scale disruptive active resistance by “non rich” people against the “status quo” for “economic reasons” poor people in these countries have seen in a while.
There were strikes by actual agricultural workers (those picking fruit on the field, not those owning the fields) at the start of the pandemic in places like Germany, but they received almost zero media coverage. Go figure. There's also plenty of successful union activity in the US atm - yet the same nazboloid wreckers who will celebrate the kulak protests in the Netherlands insist that people working at Starbucks or Amazon aren't workers. It's almost as if these red-browns are part of the effort to redirect any outrage at capitalism towards a fascist movement that poses zero threat to capitalism.
You know I was going to respond but you worded it very well, I've got nothing to really add. This is a misdirection towards a right-wing movement that won't threaten capitalism. The left-wing in the Netherlands is also largely at fault here for not capitalizing on anything/not even knowing what they want to be.
The right wing anywhere in the western world could never be as strong as it is without 150 years of anti-communism. The weakness of the left is a problem, but it is in large parts an engineered one.
Neoliberalism-produced alienated isolated culturally and socially atomized people feeling lost and purposeless are suddenly told that everything bad happening is because of them :us-foreign-policy: is an easy sell.
Fascists don't interrupt brunch, so neoliberals don't care. At least, brunch isn't interrupted yet. They're high on their own supply of ideological insulation.
There were strikes by actual agricultural workers (those picking fruit on the field, not those owning the fields) at the start of the pandemic in places like Germany, but they received almost zero media coverage. Go figure. There's also plenty of successful union activity in the US atm - yet the same nazboloid wreckers who will celebrate the kulak protests in the Netherlands insist that people working at Starbucks or Amazon aren't workers. It's almost as if these red-browns are part of the effort to redirect any outrage at capitalism towards a fascist movement that poses zero threat to capitalism.
You know I was going to respond but you worded it very well, I've got nothing to really add. This is a misdirection towards a right-wing movement that won't threaten capitalism. The left-wing in the Netherlands is also largely at fault here for not capitalizing on anything/not even knowing what they want to be.
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The right wing anywhere in the western world could never be as strong as it is without 150 years of anti-communism. The weakness of the left is a problem, but it is in large parts an engineered one.
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Neoliberalism-produced alienated isolated culturally and socially atomized people feeling lost and purposeless are suddenly told that everything bad happening is because of them :us-foreign-policy: is an easy sell.
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Fascists don't interrupt brunch, so neoliberals don't care. At least, brunch isn't interrupted yet. They're high on their own supply of ideological insulation.