Re: more middle class Re: ruling class subjectivity, was: Re: AUT: a rejuvenated communist

[commie zero zero <commie00@xxxxxxxxx>]

> As you say below, how people come to revolutionary
> ideas is not always a
> simple product of class.  Most lawyers are NOT
> capitalists, nor are doctors
> and professors, for all but a tiny, tiny few.  Most
> of them do work in the
> interest of capital, however.

hmmm... i guess my major problem with a lot of what
you have said in this area is that it all comes down
to who is and is not working in the interest of
capital. but the problem is: everyone who works is
working in the interest of capital. period.

and that's what i mean by my example of the prof and
the auto worker the other day. one produces capitalist
ideology, one produces capitalist wealth; one
reinforces capitalist standards, on reinforces
capitalist economic power (both reinforce capitalist
power). ultimately i see no difference. i'd put both
in an upper strata of the working class, but both are
working class.

as far as nergri's notion of the social worker, i
basically agree with it on many levels. there are
weaknesses, but the strengths, as i see them, are the
opposite of what you accuse: to me the notion of the
social worker de-homogenizes the working class, and
provides the basis for understanding our real
composition. understanding the ways in which we are
different and are similar. it thus provides a basis
for class solidarity.

anyway... my basic point is that a middle layer can
not be defined by who does and does not in some way
help capital. or even who does and does not mediate
between the working and ruling classes. an aspect of
the alienation we suffer from our labour is that we
mediate ourselves, and each other (thru the spectacle,
etc.).


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