AOC taxing the rich and revolting into style
Alexandra Ocasio Cortez the radical US politician has got a lot of publicity for wearing a tax the rich dress at an upmarket function in New York.
I may organise the Beard Liberation Front which is partly about style but personally, as most who know me have long since realised, I’m anti-fashion.
That does not mean I’m against political stunts and general displays of joyful celebration. As Lenin might have said ‘down with miserabilism’.
The fashion industry and the appalling conditions most fashion garments are produced in around the world should be enough to warn socialists off.
But that doesn’t mean the left cant use a politics of style. Diane Abbott’s appearance in Vogue (I’m not a subscriber) got a deal of praise and rightly so.
AOC pointed out that the tax the rich dress was borrowed and served an important function. It provoked debate on the issue at an event attended mostly by those who do not want to tax the rich because it would hit them personally.
In short AOC was revolting into style.
It wont change the world but as a political stunt it worked or we wouldn’t be discussing it
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