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Re:France’s Message for Capitalism: Adapt or Die by dragonwriter on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @07:10PM (#19437108)
> They think the French are protesting against capitalism, and that there's any continuity with what people like AOC are saying. The fact is, France is protesting against globalism.

Globalism (at least the form.thst concretely exists and is being protested) is capitalism; it's true that some of the current protest is nationalist, xenophobic, and corporatist, while some of it class-conscious, not targeted against any non-economic identity group, and socialist, and that despite protesting against the same thing those two groups are diametrically opposed.

Re:France’s Message for Capitalism: Adapt or Die by Mikeb85 on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @07:41PM (#19437353)
So, you've basically just repeated media talking points and have nothing to say about globalism contributing to inequality and protest?
Re:France’s Message for Capitalism: Adapt or Die by dragonwriter on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @08:04PM (#19437511)
> So, you've basically just repeated media talking points

No, none of that is “media talking points”.

> and have nothing to say about globalism contributing to inequality and protest?

Other than the fact that I explicitly agreed that both xenophobic nationalistic corporatists and socialists are protesting in response to capitalist globalism...yes, actually I have more to say on the topic (and already said it in another subthread):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19437188

Re:France’s Message for Capitalism: Adapt or Die by Mikeb85 on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @08:10PM (#19437536)
> xenophobic nationalistic corporatists

Literally talking points used to discredit conservative populism.

And from your previous comment:

> class-conscious, not targeted against any non-economic identity group, and socialist

Again, media talking points. PC culture has taken over the left; now instead of talking about inequality, they talk about a 'New Green Deal', gender pronouns, open borders/increased immigration, etc...

On the right, limiting immigration and tariffs are their solutions to reducing the outsourcing of labour (and both are valid economic principles), yet it gets dismissed with negative adjectives.

In both cases, all these talking points distract from the fact that inequality is the problem, globalism is one of the driving forces of inequality, and it's all glossed over by the media talking points you repeated.