That seems very likely. In my eyes, he election of Obama did to the world pretty much what the Revolution of 1830 did: it's "liberal", it's still "rightist", still pretty much "conservative" and "slow" on the whole, but it marks the end of the even more conservative era which pretended to be eternal: like the Capets who had returned on the throne and wanted to bring back the Ancien Régime, the conservatism of the neoliberals wanted to be eternal, and to re-establish the 19th cent. form of "classical liberalism". But nothing is eternal: and 1830 lead to 1848. The world is lead by a tiny oligarchy that is not different from Ancien Régime courts. Capitalism is wearing out and very fastly killing the planet on every level. We're in a worldwide economical crisis. We've got enough of corruption. The world has seen the resurection of révoltes de subsistance (rebellions because of starvation and for food -- sorry, I don't know how to translate them) last year, which we hadn't seen since the Ancien Régime. I think it's that ideology's swan song.
My co-director advised me to write to the French robespierriste societies, so that they protest as well. I've got some contact with the Robespierre one already, so I may just do that. But the Saint-Just one should be warned too -- especially.
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Date: 2009-07-21 01:02 pm (UTC)My co-director advised me to write to the French robespierriste societies, so that they protest as well. I've got some contact with the Robespierre one already, so I may just do that. But the Saint-Just one should be warned too -- especially.