He's Got the Whole World In His Hands

Peter Kilander peterk at enteract.com
Thu Sep 30 22:43:09 PDT 1999



>Charles Brown wrote:
>
>>In a lot of ways, the working class and the bourgeoisie have more in
>>common in outlook than either of them have in common with the petit
>>bourgeoisie.
>
>Which reminds me of Mary McCarthy's crack about how Marxists and the
>high bourgeoisie are joined in their contempt for the middle classes.
>
>Doug

Or, Julie Burchill substitues the working class for Marxists and aristocrats for the high bourgeoisie (or are the two latter one in the same??): "My aristocratic 80s gal pal, Isabella Delves-Broughton that was, was always explaining to me when she was drunk how very similar her class and mine were; didn't believe in education, loved dogs, drank like fish and had next to no sexual morals. It was the insufferable little oiks in the middle, she maintained, who stopped society from being groovy 24-7; saving their money, washing their cars, wasting their lives squirming up the greasy pole. This was overly simplistic and romantic, as you'd expect from a fashionista, but it contained the essence of the truth. Which is that the middle classes are rancid scraps in the middle of the luscious, bad-for-you bread of British life."



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