[lbo-talk] Signs of the times

[heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk]

Doug writes 'It's not even clear how many are "working class." I suspect a
lot are
what we used to call petit bourgeois.' in which case Myles comment that it
is 'an economic version of Stockholm Syndrome' doesn't make quite so much
sense.

But granted that the active protestors are not working class, would you
say that working class people are for health care reform? There is - as I
think Michael Pollack said- a world of difference between where the
British working class was when the NHS was introduced, but I get the
feeling that there is something of an absence of a working class
constituency for this reform, which is, as I think the original points
about the demo were making, quite remarkable.