On 2014-01-28, at 10:36 AM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> Gar Lipow wrote:
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> Also why the focus on the poor. Plenty of the working class are not poor.
> Plenty of the middle classes (using the narrowest of definitions) are no
> better off than the prosperous part of the working class. And it is the
> whole working class, and a large sector of the middle classes for whom
> things are getting worse.
>
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> I agree. And see articles on the "aristocracy of labor" by Charles Post in
> ATC. (A longer version of the first appeared in Historical Materialism.)
>
> Higher-pay sectors of the working class have led most struggles.
My view also.