Re: ruling class subjectivity, was: Re: AUT: a rejuvenated

[Bill Bartlett <billbartlett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Wright wrote:

>I do think that this does obscure the class relation though.  At least in
>the way you put it here.  Class is not an identity one wears with this or
>that task.  It is a relation to production and struggle simultaneously.  A
>professor who fixes cars on the side is not a worker.  He/she is a middle
>class person


Please define "middle class".


>  who fixes cars on the side, communist, anarchist or Republican.
>Their relation to production and their place in the management of class
>power is central.

The relation of a professor to the means of production is essentially
the same as that of the factory worker. The professor does not own it
and must work for the owner to gain a livelihood. Manager is an
occupational category, just as gardener is. Whatever each person's
occupational category, or lack of it, we are servants of the owner.

So in defining these professors as "middle class", I need to know how
you believe their relationship to the means of production differs
from anyone else in the working class? I gather you believe that the
particular work one is hired to perform is somehow relevant to class
definition, but I challenge you to justify that.

Bill Bartlett
Bracknell Tas


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