Pollitt on West

[Daniel]

Kelly, it hasn't been that long since manufacturing workers in America were
the ones who had to sell their moble homes and stuff, has it? And, did they
react any differntly than their white-collar cousins are now? I don't think
so.

I think that the question that was raised, I think by Caroll, about the
validity of the notion of the "middle-class" is really important. Now, I'm a
musician, but for much of the time in my professional life, I "worked" the
violin. Doesn't that sound funny? Nobody ever says that. But, you see, we
were completely proletarianized. Hence, our union (I mean, the Mafia). One
of the emblems of capitalist progress is that more and more professions
become proletarianized. Look what's happening to doctors. The working class
is not defined by what it does, but the conditions under which it is done.

Quincy