Karl Marx predicted that capitalism would push the workers of the world to unite. He got it back to front. It is the elites who are loosening their allegiances and workers who are reaching for national flags. This is hardly a vision of social peace. ‘The rich will live in gated communities, and secure compounds, that are protected by drones and connected by driverless cars,’ predict Yascha Mounk and Lee Drutman, two of the sharpest political scientists around. ‘Ever smarter surveillance technologies will help to monitor the activities of the malcontents outside . . . ’70 Elites of the world
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