Re: the next wedge issue

[ravi <gadfly@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Doyle Saylor wrote:
>
> My only answer to that is the whole working class is the whole working
> class.
>

what is the working class, in terms of unique characteristics or use
characteristics that help lend it definition? i am truly puzzled: i go
to work each day. i am part of the yuppie privileged class. there's a
guy wearing a union t-shirt who installs furniture in my building. am i
in the working class? is he? are we both in the same class? what about
my boss's boss's boss, who has a few million dollars in his bank? what
about the guy pulling ice in the sweltering heat in madras (pedalling a
three-wheel cycle), starting at maybe 5am and finishing up some time in
the night. what about the wife he goes home and beats up when she
returns from working at three houses as a maid?

perhaps this is all well defined in the classical texts (which i guess
are required reading for the list). if so, i hope that the texts do not
just stop at providing a definition of this class system, but also
explains the superior utility in seeing the world this way.

        --ravi