Or perhaps they are right. The working class is seen as and is a class in the
middle between the capitalists and the underclass.
Rod
Carrol Cox wrote:
> Jim Devine wrote:
>
> > (It reminds me of when Harry Braverman reports that polls indicate that
> > most people consider themselves middle class -- and most people consider
> > themselves working class, too.)
>
> Could this be interpreted that most people are both in touch with the reality
> of their lives (they are working class) but also have incorporated one of the
> core concepts of bourgeois ideology (the middle class) into their thinking.
> (This is not to deny that there is a demographically small but perhaps
> politically important class of petty producers, many of whom also consider
> themeselves both middle class and *workers*, if not "working class.")
>
> One source (or effect) of this omnipresent illusion of a "middle" class is the
> value judgments it sneaks in. There is an "upper" class and a "lower class" --
> and "lower-class" is a not infrequent sneer word.
>
> Carrol
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