Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 19:13:30 -0400
From: Roy Wilson <designrw-AT-impop.bellatlantic.net>
Subject: BHA: Crude and/or rude stratification?


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Carrol,
    Given the descriptions you offer below, how do you classify Erik Olin Wright
and/or his work on class?

Roy

Roy Wilson
designrw-AT-bellatlantic.net

Carrol Cox wrote:

> Timothy A Dayton wrote:
>
> >   Of course, the salaries are lower (wounded middle-class
> > pride), and no one takes us very seriously (wounded professional pride).
> > Yet we are, along with Shelley's poets, "the unacknowledged legislators of
> > mankind."  Yee-haw.
>
> "Middle Class" (except in references to pre-19th century history, when
> it refers to big capitalists or would-be capitalists) is not a category with
> any basis in reality. So the source of the "wounded middle-class pride"
> is the double illusion (a) that there exists a middle class and (b) that
> they belong to it rather than the working class. (The faculty at a small
> fringe of elite universities should be seen as neither middle class nor
> working class but either scabs and running dogs or part of the
> capitalist class proper This sector of the capitalist class also includes
> an internal fringe of class traitors -- Chomsky, Lewontin, etc. -- who
> are friends of the working class.)
>
> The term "professional" has long ceased to be of any use for
> political analysis.
>
> Carrol
>
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