The central argument was that conspicuous consumption was not inherently antithetical to leftist values so long as luxuries were shared equally. United States Ĭurrent Affairs ran a lighthearted article featuring a political cartoon of guests at a Marxist gathering dressed in fancy attire and sipping on champagne.
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Staunch Australian right-wingers also used the term to deride those who supported what they considered "middle-class welfare"-government funding for the arts, free tertiary education, and the ABC. As a result, the drink's association with elitism has faded. By the late 1990s, chardonnay had become more readily available and generally consumed in Australia today it is the most dominant white wine variety produced in the country. In Australia and New Zealand, the variant "Chardonnay socialist" was used, as Chardonnay was seen as a drink of affluent people. This usage of the term has been criticised by Caitlin Moran as a fallacious argument, because she claims it assumes that only those who are poor can express an opinion about social inequality. This argument claims that the champagne socialist espouses leftist views while enjoying a luxurious lifestyle one example might include Labour Party supporters who stereotypically live in Inner London and consume highbrow media. In the UK, the term is often used by right-wing critics to disparage more progressive political opponents. Singer Charlotte Church has described herself as a "prosecco socialist", referring to the increasing popularity and lower price range of non-champagne sparkling wines such as prosecco and cava. The label has also been applied to the Labour politician Geoffrey Robinson MP on account of his large personal fortune. While she is at pains to avoid being seen as a champagne socialist, her grandmother considers the family to be " Bolly Bolsheviks".
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In the fourth series of the British television comedy Absolutely Fabulous, Saffron is offered a job with New Labour. The writer and Labour supporter John Mortimer, when accused of being a champagne socialist, said that he preferred to be thought of as "more a Bollinger Bolshevik". In an article about Oscar Wilde's 1891 essay " The Soul of Man under Socialism", political commentator Will Self expressed the view that Wilde could be considered an early champagne socialist because of his aesthetic lifestyle and socialist leanings.
More recently, the epithet has been levelled at supporters of the New Labour movement which brought Tony Blair to power in 1997. MacDonald's lavish lifestyle and his mingling with high society is supposed to have been a corrupting influence that led to the end of the Labour Government in 1931 and the eventual formation of the National Government. Some traditional left-wingers regard the first Labour Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald as a "champagne socialist" who betrayed the Labour movement. The term has been used by left-wing commentators to criticise centrist views.
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