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Opinion: The utter and total failure of the political left

Che Guevara - Some rights reserved by StreetFly JZThis is a response to some of the discussion under Shouldn’t Parliament Square be for protesters?

I am afraid that my experience of various protest movements very much DOES suggest they are mainly composed of people from a social elite background, and many of those engaged in them do seem to me to be motivated at least in part by a sort of poseur mentality.

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