Marxian vs. bourgeios categories [was Marx on Smith]

Rakesh Bhandari bhandari at phoenix.Princeton.EDU
Tue Jun 29 22:07:22 PDT 1999


Comrade Fabian,

I am glad to have caught you a good day, and look forward to any replies for which you have time. A lot of bold truth, not said often enough, in your last post, in particular:

In reality, the working class hardly ever gets to see a "winning period" where everyone has a well paid job, and as any working class person (lucky to have a job) will tell you, it is always a struggle to make it to the end of the month and it is always a feeling of insecurity and fear about the future. The masses, not some theoretical definition of the working class, are constantly in a struggle to survive, not just to get higher wages. This miopic view of class struggle is the illusion created by intellectuals from "developed" nations with jobs, comfortable lifes and enough time on their hands to philosophize about "class struggle" with other likely individuals in the previledged and impersonal atmosphere of cyber space.

In the real world of the working class, workers are always on the loosing end and the only solution to this problem seems to be a....



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