The model's principal characteristic in the United States has been the transfer of wealth to stockholders and managers, and away from public interests (by tax cuts) and employees (through wage-depression and elimination of employee benefits). In this perspective, what in France seems to be a sterile defense of an obsolete social and economic order might be interpreted as a premonitory appeal for a new but humane model to replace it. It could be Europe's opportunity.
In this perspective, what in France seems to be a sterile defense of an obsolete social and economic order might be interpreted as a premonitory appeal for a new but humane model to replace it. It could be Europe's opportunity.
That's well said. They can when they want, can't they?
Anyway, I was actually surprised by his earlier piece, as IMHO Pfaff's articles are usually OK.
But the IHT is only read by cheese-eating, latte-drinking, liberal elites, anyway. guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper
The French themselves have a theory that their nation is in decline, although sometimes this amounts simply to an interiorized version of the foreign accusation that France's problems come from its refusal to adopt the Anglo- American model of market capitalism.
He must have met Jérôme in some effete Parisian cheese-and-wine bar between articles.
