[lbo-talk] What class is it?

Bill Bartlett william7 at aapt.net.au
Sat Oct 5 00:14:30 PDT 2013


Insufficient data, you can't determine anyone's class on the basis of their opinions. Though I notice several people have tried anyhow.

But just because your stupid question has provoked a few stupid answers doesn't change the fact it is a stupid question.

Bill Bartlett Bracknell tas

On 04/10/2013, at 11:07 PM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:


> It's worth noting these were not the words of activists dressed in colonial
> garb on their way to a Capitol Hill protest. All these participants did was
> get paid to attend a focus group in or around their home towns.
>
> For them, Greenberg notes, Washington looks nothing like the capital many
> others see. Gridlock? There is no gridlock. Only a socialist steamroller
> before which the Republican Party is feeble and afraid. "Evangelicals who
> feel most threatened by trends embrace the Tea Party because they are the
> ones who are fighting back," the report states. Republican base voters
> "think they face a victorious Democratic Party that is intent on expanding
> government to increase dependency and therefore electoral support."
>
> http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-04/why-republicans-shut-down-the-government.html
>
> [WS:] So how would you classify this large segment of the US population:
> Working class or bourgeoisie - certainly not the lumpenproletariat and
> certainly not capitalists.
>
> --
> Wojtek
>
> "An anarchist is a neoliberal without money."
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