Difference between the People and the Majority?

[Revolutionary Pseudonym]

Could someone please expain to me the difference between 'The People' (or the lower class, working class or whatever you want to call them) and the majority.

Thanks

[Tablo]

The working class are the majority.

[Revolutionary Pseudonym]

The working class are the majority.


That's what I thought, but I had a disscusion with some friends of mine and they said that there was a difference - so were they wrong?

[Red Commissar]

It's a matter of class consciousness. Ideally they should be one and the same, but the state has ways to divide up the population and give the illusion of multiple classes working together, hence "majority".

[Ravachol]

'The People' and 'The Majority' are liberal-bourgois terms that blur class lines. There is no such homogenic entity as 'the people' who, in most contexts, are supposedly bound by grace of ethnicity, culture or religion, social constructs that surpress class struggle. Similarly, 'The Majority' is an irrelevant term as well. Class struggle is not fought because the working class is 'the majority', but because they produce surplus value that is taken by the bourgoisie controlling the means of production which should be in the hands of the workers.
It's according to class lines we should reason, not some populist notion of 'the people'.

[ElectricSheep1203]

i would have to say the majority are those with the ability to speak. liek the people who are "respected in society." so like if you have a job, a wife/husband and kids and live in the suburbs and what not, then yorue a part of the majority.

the people, in my opinion, are those who live in the country. doesnt matter who you are, you are a part of the people.