Let’s think about that gap between eruption and inheritance, without lapsing into either of the two registers that dominate commentary on Generation Z. A generation summonedTo pose the question that way requires treating Gen Z as a socio-political category rather than a demographic one. Where commentators saw a “youth” revolt, they were often looking at a revolt organised through the labour and rage of young women, whose unpaid work absorbs every withdrawal of the state. Where a revolt has no organised force of its own, the best-organised force in the country — which is almost always the army — inherits it. The uprising’s class content — the revolt of exported labour’s children — has been translated into a promise of better management.