These are not proletarian protests, but protests against the threat of being reduced to proletarians. Who dares strike today, when having a permanent job has itself become a privilege? Not low-paid workers in (what remains of) the textile industry etc, but those privileged workers with guaranteed jobs (teachers, public transport workers, police). This also accounts for the wave of student protests: their main motivation is arguably the fear that higher education will no longer guarantee them a surplus wage in later life.
- Slavoj Zizek — You Pay Your Crisis: Slavoj Žižek: The Revolt of the Salaried Bourgeoisie
- Slavoj Zizek — You Pay Your Crisis: Slavoj Žižek: The Revolt of the Salaried Bourgeoisie
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