kelley wrote:
> At 09:39 PM 29/06/99 -0500, Carrol Cox wrote:
>
> >You mean they are all children of unionized factory workers. That's what
> >upper middle class would mean in the WSJ. What do you mean by it?
>
> yeah that's pretty much it carrol. i'm an idiote provacateur failure
> marxish academic. okay. got it.
Kelley, I mean the question seriously. I do not, ever, know what "middle class" means in *anyone's* vocabulary until they have specified it. The question may reflect irritation with your use of it but it does not label you -- too many people use it in too many different senses for an objection to it to be a label? Do you make a career of misplaced sensitivity. David Hume said of Rousseau, he was forced out into the world without a skin. Does that apply to you?
After all, that is one thing most marxists, however differently they may answer the question, agree is a real question: How do we identify classes?
Carrol