>This very issue is one major reason I do not consider myself a
>Marxist. I don't think class is *objectively* defined strictly by your
>relations to the means of production -- but is also defined by your
>relations to work.
You can escape this cul-de-sac by drawing on Marx's understanding of the *social* relations of production as mediating *between* the forces of production and consciousness and by seeing social relations as operating at different levels: organizational, institutional, structural
Kelley