Re: Middle Class
Carrol Cox wrote:
Doug Henwood wrote: >
Charles Brown wrote:
CB; I hear people say fairly commonly that “they are wiping out the middle class; there will just be rich and poor.”
True enough, but it’s another matter to talk about this in the first person.
Isn’t this sort of shuffling aside of theory what you objected to in your activistism article. Who’s talking about agitational slogans? What is the relevance of the problems of agitation to attempts at understanding the fundamental dynamics of capitalism. They only intersect at a point near infinity.
I know that human agency isn’t your strong point, but how do you expect to develop a class-based politics if people are filled with mystifications about the class nature of the society they belong to? This isn’t a matter of “agitational slogans,” and since it’s an attempt to take seriously the role of social psychology in politics it’s hardly anti-theoretical. If a lot of people shy away from the term “working class,” don’t you think you’ve got a problem on your hands? Or are you just waiting for that sudden, inexplicable, never-to-be-rushed lightning moment of enlightenment?
Doug