Bankruptcy grace period

Wojtek Sokolowski sokol at jhu.edu
Fri Mar 23 09:21:27 PST 2001


At 11:44 AM 3/23/01 -0500, Yoshie wrote:
>On the other hand, the professional ideology can & does often limit
>the extent of professionals' solidarity with the working class, even
>in cases in which professionals have actually become proletarianized
>to a large extent.

But so do many working class ideologies, such as survivalism or nativism in the US or various forms of utopian socialism, communalism or messianism in Europe, and kindred religion-inspired hogwash that untrained minds often find so attractive. Professional ideologies, that prominenetly feature self-management and living off one's skill (as opposed to one's property), are probably the closest thing to "class for itself" we can ever get. Successful social democracies have been build on professions-working class alliances. The fact that US is composed, for the most part, of poeple (professionals and "manual" workers alike) bamboozled by weird cult and cultural identities,a nd almost totally deveoid of good old class consciousness does not mean that working and professional classes have much in common.

wojtek



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