" I admire the French for setting things straight and not tolerating a priviledged class." There is basically no difference at all between the current degree o

" I admire the French for setting things straight and not tolerating a priviledged class." There is basically no difference at all between the current degree of classicism in Germany, France or UK. They have an 'egalitarian' / 'Republican' attitude, supposedly, but it's all just the same. UK has Oxbridge, and France has their 'Grande Ecoles' - and the attendance of these schools by various classes is about the same. 'English Nobility' etc. don't have that much impact on the reality of UK institutions, operations etc.. Again - and this is kind of what I'm hinting at in my answer: both classicm and anti-classism ... it's mostly preformative. The UK had a 'revolution' in 1215 with the Magna Carta, and subsequent revolutions with War of the Roses, and Cromwell's Republic. Mini revolutions throughout the ages that put the Monarchs power in about the right place. In France, the King had enormous power (and the Church etc..) and so things got to a revolutionary breaking point. But in reality they are just about the same. Even in Germany. Now drop this one in your pipe to smoke: 'Gini' coefficient, i.e. measure of inequality, tend to be 'more equal' in European countries with current/historical monarchies than in the USA, supposedly 'land of the free'. So UK, Demnark, Sweden, Netherlands - all Constitutional Monarchies, are much more 'egalitarian' than the US, which has enshrined in it's principles, a kind of 'egalitarianism'. I'm not a fan of 'Critical Theory' but that is absolutely a subject for 'Critical Theorists' to deconstruct, in that the 'narrative' of 'freedom' in the US (and France) doesn't really line up with reality very well.