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Originally Posted by garinda
Think you've been away too long.
Last summers riots and looting attracted people across the social scale.
There were many prosecutions of people who came from backgrounds where they had good lifestyles, including many who were privately educated.
Same thing at our annual May Day riots, and most protests nowadays, there's very much a middle class weighting.
Which means that it's really nothing to do with 'poverty', or social mobility.
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Of course there is "middle class weighting"; all decent revolutionary movements come from the middle class. The middle class has revolutions; the great unwashed have revolts ... as in "The peasants are revolting"
