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[could add something from 'The Conspiracy of Good Taste' by Stefan Szczelkun, WORKING PRESS 1993 : The French Revolution of February 1848 had signalled the end of the European aristocratic monopoly of power. On the 10th April of the same year the Chartists, known for their quasi autonomous and co-operative cultural forms, gathered on Kennington Common, in South London*. The Chartists demonstrated the power of the organised proletariat. The threat of their march on Westminster had caused the aristocracy and middle classes to unite and stop them by force of arms. From then on the threat of the new urban classes was taken seriously...with subsequent programmes of repression.The realisation of direct, unmediated political power depends on the ability of everyday culture to express, channel and evolve social needs. The upper classes sensed this and the importance of control in the cultural arena.In his book, 'Worship and Work' published in 1913, Samual Barnett, the philanthropist who set up Toynbee Hall;* "...was convinced that the classes had become segregated in their pleasures, and that the poor were developing their own style of life which would eventually render them antagonistic to all established authority." Worship & Work Letchworth 1913 quoted Waters P.68.[...] To hear an oppressed people speak for themselves is information that cannot be replaced with statistics and death counts.The denial to people of their own culture is an act of extreme violence however 'nicely' it is done. However little bloodshed is apparent.[...] But the repression of working class culture is so concerted that it appears as if there is.What appears to have provided this tight co-ordination of the forces of oppression seems to have been nothing but Good Taste."The struggle for liberation is above all an ACT OF CULTURE" Amilcar Cabran [300]

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book online at http://www.generation-online.org/c/fcmultitude3.htmcritique at http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=363