Scruton: “A complete fiction based upon the antiquated ideas of Karl Marx”

The English philosopher Roger Scruton explained that he became a conservative after witnessing the student protests of May 1968 in France:

“What struck me most about those students in the streets was, first of all, the sentimentality of their anger.  

It was all about themselves; it had nothing to do with anything objective.  

Here they were, the spoiled children of the middle class, the baby boomers who had never had to face any real difficulties, shouting at the top of their lungs in the streets, burning the cars belonging to ordinary working-class people whom they pretended to defend against some imaginary oppressive structures erected by the bourgeoisie.  

The whole thing was a complete fiction based on the outdated ideas of Karl Marx—ideas that were already obsolete by the middle of the nineteenth century.  

They were, if you like, staging a self-written drama in which the central character was themselves.”

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