Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 23:44:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: Gerald Levy <glevy-AT-pratt.edu>
Subject: M-FEM: middle class


> Carroll Cox responds:
> 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 agree that the term "middle class" is both overused and misused, but
I think that managers and petty capitalists might both be thought of as
being "middle class." They are part of the "middle class" not because of
their income (the popular understanding of the term), but because they are
a class that is neither capitalist nor proletarian.

Jerry