Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>>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
>
>What's the definition of the "underclass"? Poor people of color?
...with loose morals and a propensity towards crime. The Atlantic has
Nicholas Lemann's classic article on the topic at
<http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/poverty/origin2.htm>. A concept
not unrelated to "The 'dangerous class', the social scum, that
passively rotting mass thrown off by the lowest layers of the old
society, may, here and there, be swept into the movement by a
proletarian revolution; its conditions of life, however, prepare it
far more for the part of a bribed tool of reactionary intrigue." Or,
"the lumpen proletariat, which in all big towns forms a mass sharply
differentiated from the industrial proletariat, a recruiting ground
for thieves and criminals of all kinds living on the crumbs of
society, people without a definite trade, vagabonds, gens sans et
sans aveu [men without hearth or home], varying according to the
degree of civilization of the nation to which they belong, but never
renouncing their lazzaroni character...."
Doug
