-----Original Message----- From: Barry DeCicco <bdecicco2001 at yahoo.com> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Date: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 4:20 PM Subject: Re: A new ruling class?
>>It still seems to me that there is a new class here,
>whose >interests neither coincide with the working
>class nor the >capitalist class. Certainly (and
>>much to my displeasure as a fourth generation
>socialist and
>>great-grandchild of a disenchanted Bolshevik) I found
>myself >increasingly pleased by the low
>>cost of services whose costs are most closely linked
>to >wages (like fast food),
>
>I see this as standard middle-class - it's nice to be
>able to hire cheap lower-class labor, whether to clean
>your house, cook your food and do your laundry, and
>shovel coal (decades ago), or to work in a
>house-cleaning service, wait/cook in a restaurant,
>work in a dry-cleaners, and work as a janitor (today).
Okay, that's a good point. How does the "knowledge classes" interests differ from the middle class? I'll have to think about that. Thanks.
Scott Martens