>Moreover, Marx's taxonomy is based on a particular theory of the
>development of human subjectivity. In that theory, domination
>within relations of production is positively developmental of
>rational self-consciousness, of what A.N. Whitehead calls "noble
>discontent." This is discontent rooted in self-conscious awareness
>of the "good" and of the means required to make our actual lives
>better by making them approximate more to the good. If domination
>within capitalist relations isn't necessarily productive of noble
>discontent in this sense (if, say, it proves compatible with the
>kind of discontent expressed by Rapture Christianity), Marx's theory
>needs amending because it's inconsistent with the facts.
Oh, but the right kind of organizer could just slap people around a bunch and shout "Shed your petit bourgeois illusions! You're working class!!" A noble discontent (no relation to noble rot, right?) would quickly set in.
Doug