[Edited Message Follows] [Reason: Duplicate sentence removed.] Tony: "The more useful marker is control: over one's labor process, over others' labor, and over the disposition of capital.”
Fully agree that this is the best way to map the boundary between the classes. The line is blurred for supervisory personnel who straddle it. They have become a sizeable constituency in modern hierarchical organizations. Many college-educated employees both supervise and are supervised in turn. They have some limited control of others’ labor but not over the labour process or the disposition of capital. Their status as workers rather than managers has always been fiercely contested by employers and defended by the unions who argue that they don’t have independent decision-making authority and that their conditions more resemble those they supervise than those to whom they report. Of course, many don’t see themselves that way: “The working class can kiss my ass, I’ve got the foreman’s job at last." Tony: "The real question for the DSA is whether an organization that has channeled almost all its energy into electoral work can generate that kind of outside pressure at all or only ever hopes to be the parliamentary wing of a movement it isn't building." A very informative overview and good critique of the DSA’s labour activity in your publication: https://tempestmag.org/2022/01/what-happened-to-the-rank-and-file-strategy-in-dsa/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#42386): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/42386 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/120177484/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
