-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Given, that in terms of relation and process, well over 80% of the u.s. population is working class (probalby nearer 90%,
^^^^ CB: This is an important point you keep making, Carrol. Most people don't own significant means of production and must do wage labor to live. So, objectively , they are wage-laborers. However, the US propaganda system, especially based on the Cold War period, has developed a way of sending most US workers' consciousnesses far, far from their objective class status, their relationship to the basic means of production. Most US workers have an explicit anti-Communist mentality, or a residue of such think.
I just heard on talk radio today , that Newt Gingrich may be announcing running for President in 2012. He is declaring that Obama's policies are "socialist" (smile). I guess he is counting on that residue anti-Communist consciousness in the US masses, who are, as you say, overwhelmingly working class, proletarian, wage workers, though unaware of the notion or rejection the notion as a socialist idea.
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THEN it is probably worhtwhile ALSO to 'divide' up the population in non-class ways (status, income, kind of work, etc etc. But it totally distorts clear thinking about soical relatins in the u.s. and u.s. capitalism to regrd those kinds of analysis as _class_ analysis. Surely, fewer than 15% of the working class is in unions. Carrol S
^^^^^^^ CB: Well, even the theoretical division of the class for social scientific analytical purposes can lend to the disunity of the class. What should be emphasized in Party publications (smile) is class unity , somehow.
Workers of the World the US, Unite !