Re: AUT: Re: Proletariatization of the "professional" fields...

[commie zero zero <commie00@xxxxxxxxx>]

> some lawyers might be proletarians but most of them
> are mediators between
> capital and labour or between different capitalist
> interests. that to me
> makes them middle class in a similar way to cops.

i can kinda see what you're saying... but again: i
don't think that mediation makes a class analysis,
since everyone mediates for everyone. and if you want
to take it to the level of "institutionalized
mediation", then all parents mediate for all children.
does this mean that all parents are "middle class".

this is one of my major problems with the entire
concept of middle class. an element of domination /
power to dominate, i think, has to come in there
somewhere. which is why it makes sense to me to see
cops and small business owners as part of the ruling
class, while non-partner lawyers don't have this
capacity.

as to the ability to make partner, you're talking
about an incredibly small number of lawyers who can
even think of this as a future possibility with any
seriousness. that leaves the bulk of lawyers in a
different place entirely. to me this points to the
dangers of make a generalized statement about lawyers'
class position. it seems to me that most are working
class, while a very small percentage are not.

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