From: brumback-AT-ncgate.newcollege.edu
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 11:36:01 -0800
Subject: Re: M-TH: Who is Working-Class?


Louis Proyect wrote:

>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. 
>
It is true that college professors may align with either the workers or the
bourgeoisie. But this is true also of the workers themselves, and the rest
of the "middle layer," if not of members of the bourgeoisie itself! So, what
"is" the definition of the middle layer?

Nancy



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