The term "middle class " implies that there is a lower class. It divides the working class , the 99% , against itself.
The poor _are_ working class ! The Lower class , which the middle class have been impliedly dogging out all these years by distinguishing themselves as middle class _above_ the lower class.
The “middle” class income is a thousand times closer to lower class income than upper class income ( 1%) . It’s not really in the middle as in half way in between . It’s much , much closer to the bottom than the top . Middle and Lower are both part of 99% of the population; upper is 1% population.
Lower and Middle , unite ! Defeat the Upper class
99% vs 1% , We r the 99% ! We r the 99% , the Working Class ! , wage-laborers , the People .
If We become conscious of that We can win every election .
Problem is half of us are braindead / class UNconscious/ class traitors - the 73 million Republican voters are class brain dead .
The poor are working class just as much as the middle class
Black people are working class just as much
as Midwest industrial workers .
Middle Class and Lower Class unite and vote out the Upper Class’s Republican Party .
However, the use of "class" at all in the mainstream discourse is an
advance over the last 60 years in the US, so, with that historic
context, the technical incorrectness of "middle class" is not
correctly raised at this point in the progress of the US working
class' class consciousness. The Occupy WallStreet terminology of 1% vs
99% is not technically correct either, as it refers to income instead
of relationship to the means of production, but it is a glorious
propaganda advance for the US working class at this time in history
that it is so popularized
CB
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Jim Farmelant
wrote:
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'The middle class' is an oxymoron
Jacek@amu.edu.pl
Jacek Tittenbrun
Apart from anti-worker attitudes and feelings, that Detroit piece
demonstrates yet another truth. This is commonly overlooked, but the
concept of middle class makes no sense at all. In this case this is
apparent because it has been applied to the working class. So, is a GM
machinist member of the working or middle class? He cannot be both. What
hides behind this puzzle is the fact that the term 'the middle class' is
drawn from the stratification rather than class vernacular. Middle, upper,
lower classes are terms pertaining to stratification, for it is the latter
only that is inherently hierarchical; by contrast, class structures are
more complex sets of interrelationships. The petty bourgeois clas, for
instance, may be in some respects 'higher', that is, privileged in
relation to the working class, but this does not necessarily concerns some
other things, e.g. income; an artisan may well be poorer than "the
affluent worker" [such was even the title of once famous Lockwood's book
on the subject]. There are many more important differences between
stratification and class; strata are universal [in time and space],
classes emerged only at some stage of historical development and, in
theory, may disappear in the future, whereas income, lifestyle, and other
suchlike distinctions would not.
In a word, the word 'class' in juxtaposition with the word 'middle', or
'upper and 'lower', for that matter is an oxymoron. And politically and
ideologically harmful at that.
----- Original Message -----
However, the use of "class" at all in the mainstream discourse is an
advance over the last 60 years in the US, so, with that historic
context, the technical incorrectness of "middle class" is not
correctly raised at this point in the progress of the US working
class' class consciousness. The Occupy WallStreet terminology of 1% vs
99% is not technically correct either, as it refers to income instead
of relationship to the means of production, but it is a glorious
propaganda advance for the US working class at this time in history
that it is so popularized
CB
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Jim Farmelant wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From:
To:
Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2013 9:16 AM
Subject: Re: Marxism-Thaxis Digest, Vol 118, Issue 6
'The middle class' is an oxymoron
Jacek@amu.edu.pl
Jacek Tittenbrun
Apart from anti-worker attitudes and feelings, that Detroit piece
demonstrates yet another truth. This is commonly overlooked, but the
concept of middle class makes no sense at all. In this case this is
apparent because it has been applied to the working class. So, is a GM
machinist member of the working or middle class? He cannot be both. What
hides behind this puzzle is the fact that the term 'the middle class' is
drawn from the stratification rather than class vernacular. Middle, upper,
lower classes are terms pertaining to stratification, for it is the latter
only that is inherently hierarchical; by contrast, class structures are
more complex sets of interrelationships. The petty bourgeois clas, for
instance, may be in some respects 'higher', that is, privileged in
relation to the working class, but this does not necessarily concerns some
other things, e.g. income; an artisan may well be poorer than "the
affluent worker" [such was even the title of once famous Lockwood's book
on the subject]. There are many more important differences between
stratification and class; strata are universal [in time and space],
classes emerged only at some stage of historical development and, in
theory, may disappear in the future, whereas income, lifestyle, and other
suchlike distinctions would not.
In a word, the word 'class' in juxtaposition with the word 'middle', or
'upper and 'lower', for that matter is an oxymoron. And politically and
ideologically harmful at that.
----- Original Message -----
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I figured it out. First we were smart and hungry. That's how we got
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I figured it out. First we were smart and hungry. That's how we got
rich (relatively; "middle class"). When we got "rich". We got
satisfied and happy as we should have. When we got happy, we got lazy.
When we got lazy , we got dumb.
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