#Resource --- source: https://standuptoracism.org.uk/ description: Donate to fund the MARCH AGAINST FASCISM – click herePASS THE MODEL MOTION for trade unions to support 13 Sept demo – click hereBOOK TRANSPORT for 13 tags: - Activism locations: - Portsmouth focus: - Social date: quadrant: - 2 🌱 Growth time: --- He’s trying to steal your cookie - Target The Powerful, Not The Poor. - [A] Turn cookie poster into printed flag PUNCH UP! BAN BILLIONAIRES FROM POLITICS! ## Structural Violence Crimes against humanity ### David Shrigley style FOCUS ON THE REAL ENEMY ![[Enemy No.1.jpeg]] ### Tax Wealth Not Work The elites are the real rapists Pick on the have Yachts Not the Have Nots ![[HaveNotsHave Yachts.avif]] Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. 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More information can be [found here](https://www.ft.com/tour).  [https://www.ft.com/content/6e3e5b2c-ab18-11e8-89a1-e5de165fa619](https://www.ft.com/content/6e3e5b2c-ab18-11e8-89a1-e5de165fa619) “Elite” is the political hate-word of our time but, during a rant in Fargo, North Dakota, this summer, Donald Trump said something interesting. “They call it the elite,” he complained. “We got more money, we got more brains, we got better houses and apartments, we got nicer boats, we’re smarter than they are and they say they’re the elite.” Trump was on to something: in western politics, there isn’t one elite, but two. There’s the liberal “cultural elite” that he despises, and his own big-boated, rightwing moneyed elite. In a strangely overlooked recent paper, French economist Thomas Piketty — famous for his 2013 tome Capital in the Twenty-First Century — anatomises the rival elites in the US, UK and France. http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/Piketty2018.pdf Piketty has merged post-electoral surveys from 1948 to 2017 with data on voters’ wealth, education, income and so on. The story for each country is similar. The cultural elite and the moneyed elite (“Brahmins” and “merchants”, as Piketty calls them) are both growing. Both have captured their chosen political parties. On left and right, politics is now an elite sport. The big change since 1948 is the educated elite’s shift left. “The trend is virtually identical in the three countries,” notes Piketty. In the US, for instance, from the 1940s to the 1960s the more educated people were, the more they voted Republican. By 2016, the situation had reversed: 70 per cent of voters with masters degrees backed Hillary Clinton. British graduates moved left more slowly, but now mostly vote Labour. The educated elite is relatively young, urban, increasingly female — and growing. Marx would call it a “rising class”. Take the US: in 1948, only 6 per cent of voters had any university degree. By 2016, 13 per cent had a masters degree or PhD. In France in 1956, 5 per cent of voters had tertiary degrees; by 2012, 16 per cent had advanced degrees. In short, this isn’t some tiny elite concentrated in Brooklyn’s Park Slope or Paris’s Left Bank. Brahmins are everywhere now. Many of them are well-off professionals, but others are librarians and lumpen-intellectuals with terrible boats. While Brahmins moved left, the wealthy stayed exactly where they were: on the right. “Wealth” is the operative word here. Piketty shows that high-income earners are split between right and left. But people with wealth (some of whom simply own their own homes outright) are much more predictably rightwing. “Wealth is a stronger determinant of voting attitude than income,” writes Piketty. “To my knowledge this simple fact has not been established in previous research.” Like the educated elite, the wealthy elite has kept growing. Incomes may have stagnated, but heirs abound like never before. Families have amassed nest eggs over 73 years of peace. Ever more people inherit homes. British and US stock markets have all both record highs since May. Piketty’s “merchant” class (which includes many business owners) probably skews relatively male and suburban. Its members are regularly snubbed by Brahmins because they are generally less educated, older, and out of touch with today’s fashionable restaurants, clothes and language. Merchants typically regard their wealth as their own achievement (or at least that of their families), whereas Brahmins tend to attribute it to impersonal economic forces. In short, Brahmins and merchants have a natural enmity. True, many people have a foot in both elites: picture the feminist who majored in philosophy at Princeton but is now an heir working in finance. Some feel torn. In Uneasy Street , sociologist Rachel Sherman describes liberal Brooklynites mortified by their own wealth: one rich interviewee believes that many rich people are “total assholes”. But most elite members eventually choose one camp over another. The elite battle plays out differently in each country. In France, Emmanuel Macron was elected by Brahmins, but has increasingly won over merchants, partly by scrapping the wealth tax. If he can combine both elites, that would probably be enough to win a quarter of all first-round votes and be re-elected president. But British and US parties need nearly half the electorate, so they woo underprivileged people as voting fodder. Both right and left parties have to do this without giving most underprivileged voters what they want. Leftwing parties won’t bash immigrants, while rightwing parties refuse to redistribute money. The underprivileged watch helplessly, sidelined in politics as in most professions. No longer do non-graduates like Harry Truman or John Major lead governments. Even Italy’s populist prime minister is a law professor, who faced allegations that he embellished his educational CV. Today’s politicians are elitists educated by Brahmins, chastised by Brahmin commentators, and funded by merchants. Piketty remarks: “Maybe unsurprisingly, the massive increase in abstention… in all three countries between the 1950s-1960s and the 2000s-2010s arose for the most part within lower education and lower income groups.” Rightwing parties have won recent elections, partly by savaging the Brahmin “elite”. But two can play this game. The left needs to own the word “elite”, but turn it against the merchants. The big question in today’s politics is which elite wins. --- Of course. It's a powerful and important message to redirect anger from marginalized groups to the systems and individuals who actually hold power and wealth. Here are several banner suggestions, ranging from direct to more poetic, that convey that message at an anti-racist march. Short, Direct & Punchy (Best for chanting) · Don't Fight The Immigrant, Fight The Billionaire. · Blame The Billionaires, Not Your Neighbors. · The 1% Divide Us, The 99% Unite. · Racism Is Their Tool, Unity Is Our Power. Clear & Explanatory · Your Boss Underpays You, Not The Immigrant. · The System Isn't Broken, It's Built For The 1%. · Wealth Hoarders Are The Problem, Not Border Crossers. · They Pit Us Against Each Other While They Take Everything. Unifying & Powerful More Poetic / Metaphorical · They Build Borders To Divide Us, We Build Bridges To Unite. · The Problem Is At The Top, Not At The Border. · They Want Us To Fight For The Crumbs While They Eat The Cake. · Don't Be Fooled: The Hand That Points At The Border, Picks Your Pocket. · Racism Divides The Working Class. Unity Fights The Ruling Class. · Solidarity, Not Scapegoating. Our Fight Is With The 1%. · The Color Of Our Skin Differs, But Our Oppressor Is The Same. Recommendation: For a march, the short, punchy options are often most effective. They are easy to read quickly and can be turned into chants. "Don't Fight The Immigrant, Fight The Billionaire" is particularly clear and memorable.  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