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Re:Inequality, Interest Rates, Aging, and the Role of Centra... by kelseyfrog on Thursday December 29, 2022 @08:52PM (#34180779)
If you want to see modern serfdom and an eventual peasant's revolt, don't.
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Re:Inequality, Interest Rates, Aging, and the Role of Centra... by tomr75 on Thursday December 29, 2022 @09:03PM (#34180871)
that's what populism/trump/borris is
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Re:Inequality, Interest Rates, Aging, and the Role of Centra... by nerdponx on Thursday December 29, 2022 @11:19PM (#34181730)
Trumpism is definitely not a peasant's revolt, but it's marketed as one.
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Re:Inequality, Interest Rates, Aging, and the Role of Centra... by SSJPython on Thursday December 29, 2022 @11:42PM (#34181866)
Even if it's not a peasants' revolt by definition, the peasants' (rural population, working class, non-intelligentsia) support him. So it is a de facto peasants' revolt.
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Re:Inequality, Interest Rates, Aging, and the Role of Centra... by MuffinFlavored on Thursday December 29, 2022 @11:48PM (#34181908)
working class == non-intelligent?
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Re:Inequality, Interest Rates, Aging, and the Role of Centra... by SSJPython on Friday December 30, 2022 @12:12AM (#34182042)
working class == non-intelligentsia

Meaning not part of the intellectual elite, the sector of society that provides ideological guidance and justification for the system and its rulers.

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Re:Inequality, Interest Rates, Aging, and the Role of Centra... by aaomidi on Friday December 30, 2022 @01:36AM (#34182515)
What
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