What Do Trump and Marx Have in Common? - The New York Times - 0 views
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anger politics history reform working class crisis economic social class
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How was anger hijacked?
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Karl Marx was a Wutbürger. So were Montesquieu, William Wilberforce, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Globalization and its masters have capitalized on enormous pay gaps between West and East, at a huge profit for them, and huge cost to others.
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Unfortunately, a lack of maturity and prudence today exists among not just the new populist class, but parts of the political establishment
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. A growing number of voters are going into meltdown because they believe that politicians — and journalists — don’t see what they see.
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Sadly, the leaders of today’s Wutbürger movements never grasped the difference between anger driven by righteousness and anger driven by hate.
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The upper class has gained much more from the internationalization of trade and finances than the working class has, often in obscene ways.
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Giant enterprises like Facebook or Apple pay minimal taxes, while blue-collar workers have to labor harder — even taking a second or third job — to maintain their standard of living.
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In Germany a recent poll showed that only 14 percent of the citizens trusted the politicians. This is an alarming figure, in a country where faith in a progressive, democratic government has been a cornerstone of our postwar peace.
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Amid their mutual finger-pointing, neither populist nor established parties acknowledge that both are squandering people’s anger, either by turning this anger into counterproductive hatred or by denouncing and dismissing it.
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Mrs. Clinton has the chance to change, by leading a political establishment that examines and processes anger instead of merely producing and dismissing it