In 2006, billionaire Warren Buffet said “There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”

Now, 17 years down the road, we can state that this war has won, but not by the class of the super-rich, but by what Michael Lind in his book "The new Class War" called the "managerial-professional class". The point is that socialists like me, when we are looking for our "class enemy" usually point to the famous top 1%, whereas the true enemy of ordinary people is this managerial-professional class which makes up about 10% of the population. It is them, not the handful of billionaires like Buffett, who are pulling the strings and occupying all positions of economic and cultural power.

Recently, some of them have gained in strength - and above all they acquired immunity from criticism from below! - by allying themselves with the cultural left, the "social justice" Left, creating in the process a strange hybrid called "woke capitalism".

Yes, this class war is over and ordinary people ("les classes populaires" as we call them in France) have lost. But the main culprit for this defeat is not the group of the rich, or the political right ("neo-liberalism" ), but the betrayal of those you call themselves "liberals". Thomas Frank described the history of this betrayal in his book "Listen, Liberal". We should never forget that when we bemoan the situation of the working class .