Working Class

[Joe R. Golowka]

From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
> The "idea that a class should be defined on some basis other than
> relation to the means of production" seems to me to be the
> commonsense perception that comes naturally, or "intuitively," to
> many under capitalism, especially to those who accept what the mass
> media say about class.  Relations to the means of production are the
> last thing that the power elite want you to think about.

How can one admit that a power elite exists and simultaniously claim that class is defined soley by
relation to the means of production?  If class were defined that way then a power elite would be
non-sensical.  Class = wealth (relation to the means of production) + power (ability to control other
people).  I fail to see how such a concept of class is a part of hegemony.

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Joe R. Golowka
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