>>>This discussion proves how effectively the oligarchy diverts attention from itself by getting one protesting group to pit itself against another... Dickens portrayed this masterfully in A Tale of Two Cities, where servants who had been fighting with each other for years suddenly stopped and said.. "Wait ...HE's the enemy!" and took control by joining forces with the people they had been fighting.
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>Do you mean Defarge?
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I was thinking of the fellas who served "monsigneur" his chocolate every day.
Yes, good radical writing has been out of fashion for quite a while.
It somehow lost credibility when authors started flying around in private jets, I think.

>Certainly Dickens was sending a warning to his intended aristocratic audience that England is not so dissimilar from France and needs to beware following the same path. Dickens was eagerly digested by the 1% of the time but similar authors of today- such as Stephen King and J. K. Rowling- seem not to carry the same gravity.