>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