>you're wrong because
>you don't know anything about me and you don't appear to realize that there
>are a few working class people on this list--at least as you seem to
>suggest.
Individualizing & personalizing like you are doing here make any discussion impossible (not to mention boring).
>what was in dispute was that one section
>of them, "the working class" was more racist than another segment of them,
>namely i guess people such as yourself.
Justin said no such thing, nor did he imply that.
And here's the problem:
>Brint, Steven, "'New-Class' and Cumulative Trend Explanations of the
>Liberal Political Attitudes of Professionals," American Journal of
>Sociology, 90 (July, 1984), 30-70.
The concept of the 'New Class' is obscurantist; it has more to do with Weber than Marx, and it helps to perpetuate the empiricist denial of the primary contradiction of capitalism: capital versus labor. Most people whom social scientists classify as 'New Class' are simply white-collar workers. Many empirical and subjective divisions & hierarchical relations exist within the working class, but they have to be analyzed as contradictions _within_ the working class.
Yoshie