Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 10:56:14 -0500
From: Louis Proyect <lnp3-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: M-TH: Who is Working-Class?


>And you think that Harvey is 'workerist'!
>This is a very narrow, and I might say old fashioned concept of working
>class. All flatcaps and ferrets as they say this side of the pond. Are you
>seriously suggesting that only those in traditional manual occupations
>qualify as working class?
>
>Russ

I am not rigid about these categories, but I don't regard college
professors as part of the working-class. The intelligentsia (professors,
journalists, artists, etc.) are part of a middle-layer in society that will
pull in the direction of either major class, the workers or the bourgeoisie. 

Louis Proyect



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