Prabhat Patnaik : Middle-class uprisings take the place of earlier workers’ ones

The Telegraph, 6 November 2013

PERFECTING THE STATE
- Middle-class uprisings take the place of earlier workers’ ones
PRABHAT PATNAIK

From Tunis to Cairo to Istanbul to Delhi to Rio de Janeiro we are witnessing an upsurge of middle class militancy. To call these uprisings “middle class” is not to denigrate them, not to belittle their moral concerns or seriousness of purpose; it is merely to