>>> lawrence at krubner.com 08/21/01 03:40AM >>>
> Everyone can't be middle class, but
> class can be abolished.
Why can't everyone be middle class? My parents and grandparents all fought for an America where everyone was middle class.
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CB: If everybody was middle class, who would be in the classes they were in the middle between ?
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My grandparents on my mother's side were both member of the American Socialist Party back in the 20s, then they joined up with the Democrats when Eugene Debbs joined up with the Democrats. I imagine in their youths they might have fought for something more radical than everyone joining the middle class, but of what I knew of them, and of what my folks fought for too, was the ideal of everyone belonging to the middle class. It certainly seemed possible for awhile, back in the 50s and 60s and 70s, when strong unions made working class jobs pay just as much as middle class jobs.