May I recommend Michael Zweig's book The Working Class Majority? It is a
useful pedagogical tool on these issues.
Joel Blau
Jim Devine wrote:
one definition of "capitalist" allows anyone to join: a woman once
told me that she was one because she was greedy.
On 5/23/07, Brian McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
About home ownership. . .
I give a lecture where I do a class analysis of the US for Intro to
Anthropology students. I have the class write about their most
favorite and
least favorite jobs for a few minutes then we discuss that and I talk
about
my 30 or so jobs. . .then I draw on the bord 4 categories
1) worker
2) consumer
3) citizen
4) capitalist
I ask them about each one. . .they are very good at defining the
first 2
but get tripped up on number 3. . .when it comes to what is a
capitalist?
the consensus is that they all are. . .when I ask does that mean you
are in
the capitalist class? it remains high. .about 90% saying yes. .
.they cite
things like home ownership and the like. . .
I proceed by differentiating capitalist ideology from being a
capitalist
(owner of the means etc.). . .
My questions 1) do you find such general ignorance about class in
the US?
2) how, precisely would you define a capitalist (and what percentage of
people in the US are so?
Thanks,
Brian McKenna
]
Whan I ask the class I do it creativelt,
In a message dated 5/23/07 11:44:07 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Isn't that number rapidly increasing as the value of housing falls?
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 08:11:49AM -0700, Jim Devine wrote:
>does anyone know where I can find the number of US households who own
>more than 25% (or so) of the value of their houses or condos? and how
>this number has changed over time?
>
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