define the working class in the 21st century

[redarmyfaction38]

free reign, i'm saying nothing.

[luxemburg89]

Why do you qualify them as different to the working-class in the 20th Century?

[peaccenicked]

Class is a social distinction within definite social relations. The workers still take a proportion of surplus value while the employers take the rest. Ideology and self image are peripheral to this.

[Inanis]

defined and treated as a number.
working for no greater purpose than making the rich richer and surviving.

[Lynx]

Taken for granted.
Taken for a ride.
Exploited.

[redarmyfaction38]

Originally posted by [email protected] 19, 2007 09:56 pm
Why do you qualify them as different to the working-class in the 20th Century?
i don't really, others do.

i'm always amused by the attempts of the "intellectual left" and the "capitalist propagandists" to somehow redifine the working class according to the latest "political" fashion.

i was just interested in how comrades on these boards felt.

curiosity.

[Red October]

I don't think it's fundamentally different than it was a century ago. The basic labor and value relations are the same.