Problems of Functionalism

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Mar 15 12:21:44 PST 2001


Justin Schwartz wrote:


>Thus: the proletariat, i.e., the blue collar industrial working
>class, is not the majority in any modern industrialized society, so
>Marx is washed up.

Talking with Paul Mattick Jr - Katha Pollitt's Last Marxist - the other night, I learned that there were almost no workers in Vermont, because there's so little manufacturing there.

Doug



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