[Marxism] Working class

["Charles Brown" <cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

1. Is the working class declining ?

2. What defines membership in the working class ?

3. Does the working class include others besides wagelaborers in material
production ?

4. Do wagelaborers outside of the sphere of material production create value
?

5. What are service workers ?

6. Are teachers in the working class ? Do teachers create value ? Can
teachers be exploited  ( and who will teach the teacher ?) ? Same question
about office workers, postal workers,nannies, computer workers, clerks,
secretaries, nurses, garbage pickup workers,
water plant workers, public lighting workers, housekeepers, utility shutoff
workers, et al

7. What is the difference between the working class and the working masses,
if any ? working people ?

8.  What is the significance of the difference between those who do
predominantly mental labor as opposed to those who do predominantly physical
labor ? What are white-collar workers ? What are intelligentsia or
intellectuals ?

9. What are the "middle strata ", "middle classes" etc. ?

10. What does "proletarianization of the middle strata" mean ?

11. Does "proletariat" mean the same thing as "working class :" ?

12. What is the significance of the changes in the division of labor and
organization of production due to the scientific and technological
revolution for all of the above ? ( What is the scientific and technological
revolution ? )

13. Does the term "mode of production" have more than on meaning in Marxist
terminology ?  Does it apply to changes in organization of production short
of a shift from capitalism to socialism , or feudalism to capitalism ? That
is, changes in the socio-economic formation ? Does it apply to changes due
to development and revolutions in science and technology since the
Industrial Revolution ?



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