Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 02:56:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: commie zero zero <commie00-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: AUT: Me and my interests


> this i
> believe
> is at least one of the reasons why we are seeing
> white
> collar worker's striking (for example boeing a few
> months ago), and things such as doctor's
> unionizing...

been thinking a lot about this...

have we been seeing over the last 20-30 or so years
the "proletarinization of the 'proffesional class'
[white collar workers]"? (i.e. large parts of the
'proffessional class' finally recognizing that they're
working class, tho they may still not identify
themselves as such -- all in all, at this point, it's
their actions and changing attitudes that matter.)
such that job description does not necessarily define
one's class any more... so that a doctor who works in
the emergency room of a hospital is  very much working
class, while a doctor who owns hir own practice, has
several employees, etc. could maybe be said to be
effectively petit-bourgeois (if such a thing really
exists as a class anymore). 

along with the intinsification of globalization, etc
are we seeing a more intense polarization of the
classes? 

maybe i'm just saying something that everyone else
knows, but i've not seen much work on any such
thing... and it seems this way to me. maybe this is
one of the ways camatte went wrong... 

on a sorta related note: was re-watching the
manufactuing consent movie the other day, adn there's
this funny part where tom wolfe is criticizing
chomsky, saying that his notions of corporate control
of media are akin to the cabal theory... saying
something like "there no room full of capitalists
gathered around a table, hatching plans, etc." and i
thought: sure there are... they're called corporate
board rooms, and other such things. 


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