Oddly enough, I think that in a class-based society, where frank
admission was made of the fact, government would generally tend to play a
more prominent redistributive role and income would be less stratified.
It is revealing, I think, that the only prominent American politician (at
least to my knowledge) to admit to the existence of social class as a
real phenomenon is New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Take away
the recognition of class as a phenomenon, and you have the dominance of
raw bucks.
Jon Peirce
Memorial U. of Nfld. (sojourning in To. at present)
