There is a reason why the ultimate bourgeois virtue is thrift, and - TopicsExpress



          

There is a reason why the ultimate bourgeois virtue is thrift, and the ultimate working-class virtue is solidarity. Yet this is precisely the rope from which that class is currently suspended. There was a time when caring for ones community could mean fighting for the working class itself. Back in those days we used to talk about social progress. Today we are seeing the effects of a relentless war against the very idea of working-class politics or working-class community. That has left most working people with little way to express that care except to direct it towards some manufactured abstraction: our grandchildren; the nation; whether through jingoist patriotism or appeals to collective sacrifice.
Posted on: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 10:54:57 +0000

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