Abstract
But there is still a struggle which is worth our powder and shot . . . and that is the class struggle. By this I do not mean that we should stand shoulder to shoulder in an effort to drive workers back to their hovels. Those battles have all been lost. The new class struggle is to reassert the ascendancy of the bourgeois culture in all the fields where it is being crushed by the Murdoch-Thatcher juggernaut: in politi? cal and administrative leadership, arts, education, entertainment, television and newspapers. By 'bourgeois culture* in this context I mean the standards of intel? ligent, liberally-educated people such as still hold the strings of power in most of Europe . . . The class struggle must concentrate first and foremost on the Conservative Party, always remembering that the yobs are, in fact, a dying breed. There is no earthly reason to surrender to them at every turn and declare the resulting proletarian mess a 'classness' party. Auberon Waugh, "Now we are Fifty," The Spectator, 2 December 1989.
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