It seems unfair for Ellen to treat discussions of distinctions within
oppressed classes QUITE so lightly. Unity and the lack of it is related to
some of these distinctions and the ability of political strategy and tactics
to find common ground can depend upon an accurate understanding of the
John Case argued:
an important section of industrial workers. Many of these workers own
property, have skills that have been parleyed into part-time businesses.
The percentage of workers in basic industry (steel, auto, machine tools,
etc., in this category, I donot know, exactly. But my
On Dec 20, 2:54am, BILL MITCHELL wrote:
we must be careful to distinguish the ability to extract rentier returns from
that of being able to extract surplus value. property in marx is a very
specific thing. the sort of classification system that talks about middle
classes does not really
This is true, but what DO Marxists say about workers who are also
rentiers? Many workers are also very small scale capitalists, in the
sense that they own a piece of capital in a stock portfolio. And then
there are the flight attendants at United Airlines, who "own" their
employer.
Why don't we just throw in the towel and join in the chorus of "Serfin'
USA?" How much difference is there between the lot of a serf and the
situation of lots and lots of us who are wholly dependent on the wishes
of the seigneur, who render to this seize-er our time, our energy, our
beliefs?
