Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 12:38:09 -0400 From: Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol-AT-jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu> Subject: Re: M-FEM: Feminist mailing lists At 12:32 PM 10/22/97 -0500, Carrol Cox wrote: >I am almost always disturbed by the appearance of the term "middle class" >in Marxist discourse; I don't think there is any group in the developed >capitalist world that this label fits. I fully agree. I just used it as a stock phrase without thinking much of it. Apologies. On a related, point, in your posting you seem to distinguish professionals from working class. I would argue that professionals are working class, unless they hold property right to the intellectual commodity they produce. Thus, a PhD toiling in a corporate research lab is as proletarian as a person with a HS diploma on the shop floor or at the typewiter. A professor who hires grad students and RAs and then packages the product of their work into a book that he publishes under his/her name (i.e. claiminng exclusive property rights) is as capitalist as any other factory owner who hires labor, and expropriates its product to sells it. Regards, wojtek sokolowski institute for policy studies johns hopkins university baltimore, md 21218 sokol-AT-jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu voice: (410) 516-4056 fax: (410) 516-8233
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