"The "dangerous class", the social scum, that passively rotting mass thrown off by the lowest layers of the old society, may, here and there, be swept into the movement by a proletarian revolution; its conditions of life, however, prepare it far more for the part of a bribed tool of reactionary intrigue."
This Marx fellow seems to have known a thing or two . . .
-----Original Message----- From: kelley [mailto:the-squeeze at pulpculture.org] Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 3:32 PM
then there's this bit: "The lower middle class, the small manufacturer, the shopkeeper, the artisan, the peasant, all these fight against the bourgeoisie, to save from extinction their existence as fractions of the middle class. They are therefore not revolutionary, but conservative. Nay, more, they are reactionary, for they try to roll back the wheel of history. If, by chance, they are revolutionary, they are only so in view of their impending transfer into the proletariat; they thus defend not their present, but their future interests; they desert their own standpoint to place themselves at that of the proletariat."
wow! like, there are classES and they can be reactionary and stuph.
blows my skirt up, it does.
kelley
(whoops! isn't this why I'm not a leninist?)