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

[Justin Schwartz]

It's less than the Fords and the Agnellis (Fiat)--I went to Tigertown with 
William Ford and Nino AGnelli--express hostility to the working class, or 
they did not when I was at school; in fact both are personally liberal 
politically, but rather that they know that they are masters of the universe 
and who the other MoU are. People like me don't count; we are at best hired 
help; you can see it in the way that they treat you versus the way they 
treat each other. At Cambs, the very U [upperclass] Brits wouldn't even talk 
to us lowlifes. You know the joke about Boston, the Lodges only talk to the 
Cabots, and the Cabots talk only to God? U Brits are like that too. --jks


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>Justin Schwartz wrote:
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>>They are certainly class conscious. Having gone to school at Princeon and
>>Cambridge, I can tell you from first hand experience that they have no
>>doubt about who they are. If we lose, it isn part, also, because we are
>>not class conscious enough.
>
>Justin, honeybunch, could you expound on what you mean by this?  I'm sorry
>for overlimit, but I think it would be illuminating for Norm to have more
>of a sense of what you mean?  E.g., would you say, for ex, that they view
>it in class warfare terms---of hostility--or something a bit less severe
>than that?
>
>
>kelley
>

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