Re: [Marxism] ...occupants of capitalist situations...

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

I browsed through John Scott's paper from which you quoted this.
Frankly, Scott knows about as much about Marx as I know about the finer
points of Sanskrit grammar. This is merely his paraphrase not of
anything in Marx but of various rumors he has encountered concerning
what Marx said.

In fact contemporary Marxists differ sharply on the class analysis of
contemporary capitalism. There is no quick and easy (defining quick and
easy as writing not more than 50 pages of interpretation of only two or
three thousand pages from Marx) to relate the paragraph below to
anything Marx ever wrote.

Carrol

i.lagardien-alumni@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
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> STARTS: Marx held, for example, that the occupants of capitalist situations 
> form a distinct social stratum because they circulate freely around the 
> different forms of capital, because they are involved in extensive networks 
> of intermarriage, and because their children are able to inherit accumulated 
> capital and to enjoy the advantaged life chances that it generates. In the 
> same way, he saw occupants of proletarian situations as forming a separate 
> social stratum because they move from one type of work to another similar 
> type, and from work to unemployment, they marry other workers, and their 
> children have no choice but to try to enter paid employment. ENDS

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