Recognizing the former group and explaining how it is indeed "in the middle" strikes me as necessary to a realistic and convincing analysis of this society. Telling them (and others) that doctors and lawyers are just workers seems to me to be as wrong as calling them capitalists. They are tweeners.
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> On Behalf Of Doug Henwood
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> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Boycotting the unorganized?
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> Carrol Cox wrote:
>
> >An analysis of this situation that endlessly invokes a mythical "middle
> >class" is simply not serious.
>
> You've got a serious point with this, but most Americans believe
> they're middle class. What do you do, tell them they're deluded? Tell
> them to substitute something less appealing for their aspirational
> self-ID?
>
> Doug
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