Lance Murdoch wrote:
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> I don't think red-diapered babies are aware of how devoid right wing working class culture is of any kind of good left wing images. Michael Kinsley on Crossfire, Eleanor Clift on McLaughlin group, no one who will be leading a charge to the barricades, I'm reminded of that chapter in "The Book of Daniel" where they listen to the radio debates between the right-winger and a left-wing patsy. Socialism *represents* the working class, thus virtually all the working class should be for it. Moore shows a picture of the working class embattled, just as the right paints a picture of the working class embattled by blacks, Mexicans and liberal cultural revolutionaries. Working class people are under siege, and they respond to those, like Moore or Buchanan, who realize that they are under siege and say as much.
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Who do you think the working class is? It sounds to me as though you have a sort of romaticized ideal of horny-handed sons of toil. What about the staffs (including supervisors) of Walmarts? What about all the fastfood restaurant managers who work incredibly long hours and are paid very badly. What about school teachers? What about the large clerical staffs of banks? (They are all well dressed.) My image of the working class includes close to 90% of the population, so "working-class culture" doesn't have much meaning unless described in some detail.
Marx said that capitalism moved towards a world of a small capitalist class and a huge working class. That is exactly how its turned out. (Perhaps 5 to 8 % are petty producers.)
Carrol