In a message dated 12/31/99 12:13:25 AM, JKSCHW at aol.com writes:
<<<< The "underclass" is not a valid category for leftist social analysis either
(unless one examines it only to point out how the concept is used by
ideologues). That is an ideological category employed in racist and often
anti-urban discourse and stands in sharp contrast to the Marxist
understanding of class. >>
"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." --Marx & Engels, The Manifest of the Communisy Party, Part I.
But what do you expect from a couple of German intellectuals, anyway? Ideologues all, with no grasp of the "Marxist understanding of class."
--Justin
PS, how's things in cow-town, Yoshie? </XMP>>>
This thread is beginning to drift. Are you saying that the group of people that comes to mind when the words "White Trash" are uttered is the lumpenproletariat? There's many a motorboat and minibike betwixt. mcapri