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Road Warriors: The New Proletariat
Demonstrators and their tractors in Berlin in January. (Photo by Kay Nietfeld/picture alliance via Getty Images)
Why the truck and tractor are replacing the picket line—and what that says about our politics.
By Michael Lind
02.01.24 — International
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From Europe to America, mass protest movements increasingly take place on wheels. The streets of Berlin have been choked in the past couple of weeks by the tractors of farmers protesting government cuts in diesel fuel subsidies for vehicles and farm machinery, with similar protests taking place in France, Poland, and Romania.

Beginning in 2018, the stree…

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Michael Lind
Michael Lind is the author of more than a dozen books of history, political analysis, fiction, and poetry. A co-founder of New America, Lind is a contributor to Tablet and has taught at Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and UT-Austin.
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