Yet the most outspoken propagation for the extension of school closures and zero tolerance for calls to reopen schools came precisely from left-wing outlets such as Novara Media ignoring the question of class in that private schools will ensure the education of their pupils,

while working class families struggle. Not a great look from the self proclaimed luxury communists.

The left’s newly discovered love for bourgeois state authority and organs enforcing these
measures, a love in the name of the ‘vulnerable’, precisely reflects a radical indifference towards the precariat and ‘underclass’. The unfortunate debate over “life” vs. “the economy”

reveals this.

Then we have the moral outrage at individuals transgressing social distancing measures - “you want people to die!” – ironically expresses
this disinterestedness in the actual lives of people, paralleled by an indifference towards actual social change

or the stratum of society that suffers most under the class politics of lockdown.

As though they lived in an alternate reality, for the liberal, and sometimes the radical left the lockdown became the site of struggle of a science-guided paternal state against ‘selfish people’

enjoying themselves in outside spaces like parks and beaches. In the name of the ‘vulnerable’, it absorbed an
authoritarian 'Kulturkampf' on its own terms, that at best disregarded the ramification of total economic shutdown for the poorest, and in many ways worse whipped up

a classist resentment against ordinary, often working,
individuals to whom the often-used label ‘vulnerable’ mysteriously never applies

Last spring in short, the authoritarian personality
found a safe harbour in the left middle class.