In Lyon, police use gas grenades to disperse protesters. Some French people are unhappy with the results of the presidential election, which declared Macron’s victory.
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In Lyon, police use gas grenades to disperse protesters. Some French people are unhappy with the results of the presidential election, which declared Macron’s victory.
This is how capitalism operates and functions. Whilst at least one-third of society lives well (controlling the media and the political system), the other two-thirds of the society are neglected and expected to merely ‘struggle-through’ what constitutes ‘existence’ for them – free of the encumbrances of healthcare, unemployment insurance, housing, education and union protection when in employment! The bourgeois media is trained to ‘ignore’ this reality of the routine brutality of existence within the capitalist system – and instead propagate lies and invent all kinds of imagined slights against ‘Socialist’ regimes – just in-case the US working-class ever ‘awakes’ from its collective slumber and decides to no longer live in this self-induced stupor!
Furthermore, for reasons not explained in the original Chinese language article, there is a quote attributed to ‘Turgeniev’ in English, which I assume is actually the Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883). At first glance this seems an odd association, as Turgenev was a renowned hunter of animals.