[lbo-talk] Americans' class self-ID

[Richard Seymour]

On 15/03/2010 19:42, brad bauerly wrote:
> Doesn't this poll counter what many here have tried to say about the
> teaparty poll results: namely that those that self represented as teaparty
> activists were upper-middle class or part of the bourgeoisie (majority
> making less than $75,000)?  It would appear that most of the respondents to
> the teaparty poll would be categorized as middle class by this.

So you're going to take ABC/WaPo's version of class as definitive?  If
you want to find out what class they belong to, you need something other
than income brackets.  You need to find out what kind of class power
their wield, esp. in the workplace.  Are they supervisors, managers,
human resources, tradesmen, shop owners - basically, people with any
authority to direct the labour process?  Then they could be classified
as middle class.

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