[lbo-talk] ABC News/Washington Post Poll: After the Conventions

Lenin's Tomb leninstombblog at googlemail.com
Wed Sep 10 06:00:52 PDT 2008


On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski <swsokolowski at yahoo.com>wrote:


> But I fundamentally disagree with your line of the "hatred of the working
> class." The US does not have working class as such - it has mainly petit
> bourgeois class (or booboisie, as HL Mencken used to call them) that
> mistakenly passes for the working class. Take truck drivers, contractors,
> realtors, consultants, etc. for example - they own thier means of
> production, so in in a marxist sense they alrteady qualify on this criterion
> alone as petit bourgeoisie.

This is puerile horseshit. If you want a portrait of the American working class, see: http://www.monthlyreview.org/080101yates.php



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