class composition

billbartlett at dodo.com.au billbartlett at dodo.com.au
Tue Aug 20 00:23:42 PDT 2002


At 6:45 AM -0500 19/8/02, Carrol Cox wrote:


>This was one of Gramsci's real idiocies. He argued (pre-prison days)
>that working-class wives were petty-bourgeois because they were not
>employed.

Wow! They imprison you in Italy for that sort of remark? That's what I call class-consciousness, good thing too, give the damn fool a taste of the "petty-bourgeois" lifestyle for his trouble.


> The working class, how many times must it be repeated, is not
>a static category, a box into which one pops green marbles while popping
>purple marbles in another. Class is a social relationship. (Or as the
>Chinese would, or would have, put it, one divides into two.)

Your "Class is a social relationship." seems as inscrutable as anything the Chinese might be credited with.

Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas



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