Helping Themselves

A book criticising the dominannce of the anti-working class bourgeoisie in left wing politics, with a particular focus on theatre and the arts.

If you have ever wondered why all nice people are left-wing, and all left wing people are nice, and why all arts funding has to go to support left wing projects and opinion, and this is never questioned, if you have wondered why all art seems to be somehow left-wing, at least when you read about it, and why all left wing people are middle class or seem about to become so. Why schools and universties seem also to be left wing, and all morality seems to be left wing, and why the words 'progress' and 'left wing' are almost the same (progressive), and why left wing people are usually better off financially than others, and why the left now hates the working class- if you have a nagging doubt that it can, or ought to, really be so, if it can really be right that we take all this for granted, then you might like to read this book. If not, if all the above seems natural and right to you, you'll hate it.