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March 29, 2006
The Bankrupt "Revolution"
One of the stories I am following right now is the French student protests against reform of labor laws to make it easier to terminate young workers. In today's IHT, William Pfaff offers an apology by editorial that misses the point by more than half (his thoughts on globalization are positively Thomas Friedman-esque). To see how absurd the situation really is in contemporary France, consider this. This post and the pieces it links too come much closer to the mark. This is indeed an incredibly misguided "revolution".
Indeed, it is interesting to me that these kids so enthusiastically embrace the symbolism of revolution (at any one of these protests, Che's image, for instance, is not hard to find). I find this quite interesting, since in many respects these kids really represent a reaction, not a revolution. It would seem that they cannot tell the difference.
Posted by dag at March 29, 2006 11:41 AM