[lbo-talk] Boycotting the unorganized?

[Michael Dawson]

But, as Kevin Phillips explains, there is a sizable group of people who are
"not in the top one-fifth of 1 percent.  [They make up to] $300,000 to
$400,000 a year.... Whereas the people at the top who make their money out
of investments.  The former group "are...people who actually work," and
whose privileges would mostly disappear if they stopped.  The latter work
only to amuse themselves and sustain their ideology about "earning" their
dividends.

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.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org]
> On Behalf Of Doug Henwood
> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 11:12 AM
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Boycotting the unorganized?
> 
> 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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