It's Heating Up ( is "class" in the US today a meaningful con cept for analysis and organizing?)

[Doug Henwood]

Mikalac Norman S NSSC wrote:


>so, why is "class" so important a concept to the Left after 150 years of
>losing battles over it?
>
>(OK, so Dear Old Karl is rolling over in his grave.)

The ruling class certainly hasn't discarded the concept. Why do you 
suppose employers fight unions, central bankers obsess about the 
state of labor militancy, bondholders worry about "fiscal 
responsibility," cops and armies are so well-armed, and so on? The 
U.S. ruling class is remarkably disciplined and class conscious, even 
if our working class isn't.

Doug