Pollitt on West

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At 11:02 AM 1/4/99 -0500, you wrote:
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>>Re "white MIDDLE CLASS": The internet is not the place in which this issue
>can
>>be profitably debated. But I wish to put on record a proposition.
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>>Until marxists eliminate the term "middle class" from their analyses, even
>from
>>their spontaneous silent thinking, there will be no real progress in
>developing
>>a material analysis of class in the u.s., no advance in the analysis of
race,
>>of gender, of any fucking thing requiring serious political analysis.
>>
>>The only function the term has ever served is to confuse political thought.
>>That is the only function it will ever serve.
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>Hey Carrol, would you elaborate on this a bit more?  I always think this is
>an interesting position and would like to hear your thoughts.  One of the
>reasons I chose to do research on downsized exec. level managers was
>because I wanted to explore what happened to these people as they started
>to realize that they weren't any different from the working class.  Is that
>what you mean?
>
>Kelley

So Kelley, how DO they feel, when/if they realize they aren't any different
from the working class.  (course they are diff, they have more options,
unless they've been really frivilous with their money)

Atlanta will be closed tomorrow, on acount of cold.  We're a wimpy lot.

pms
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