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nadinbrzezinski

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19. This is why the definition of middle class we use

Reply to n2doc (Reply #17)

Sat Mar 9, 2013, 11:24 PM

Mar 2013

Is ideological, not based on any reality you or I are familiar with. For that matter it violates the classic definitions used in Sociology.

You know poor, lower working class, middle working class, upper working class, lower middle class and so on.

This s one reason you got no protests, and no sense of class. It's become mushy.

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Here the heart of the problem, to the apparent lack of worker outrage. [View all] nadinbrzezinski Mar 2013 OP

Yes! hedgehog Mar 2013 #1

A single person making 20k is actually poor, especially after taxes. duffyduff Mar 2013 #2

But he or she sees himself or herself as middle class nadinbrzezinski Mar 2013 #4

The lack of class consciousness in the USA IS the reason..... socialist_n_TN Mar 2013 #3

Yup, that history of labor of mine is taking a decidedly "strident" nadinbrzezinski Mar 2013 #5

Totally agree! - KnR LeftInTX Mar 2013 #6

Income is not the only indicator of class. Brickbat Mar 2013 #7

Exactly, Ma'am The Magistrate Mar 2013 #8

The Sooners are admired, the Boomers not so much bigbrother05 Mar 2013 #11

Exacrly, Sir: I Know The Derivation The Magistrate Mar 2013 #12

A true hard core classic Marxist POV nadinbrzezinski Mar 2013 #22

wtf are you talking about 'hard core marxist'? where do you think your "classic class" analysis HiPointDem Mar 2013 #25

Thank you for your post. n/t GiveMeFreedom Mar 2013 #24

"Middle Class" is amorphous SoCalDem Mar 2013 #9

America has been a consumer society since the 1920s, really... YoungDemCA Mar 2013 #15

MC should very well be...not amorphous nadinbrzezinski Mar 2013 #21

Politics pretty much demands it SoCalDem Mar 2013 #26

Exactly, serving the goal of social control. nadinbrzezinski Mar 2013 #27

The One Percent is deadly afraid of class awareness education and that is why they always scream kairos12 Mar 2013 #10

I've heard that 20K worker called "the illusory middle class." Gidney N Cloyd Mar 2013 #13

Americans have been trained to not see class differences Yavin4 Mar 2013 #14

I'd say $250,000 makes you rich no matter where you live hfojvt Mar 2013 #16

See 17 nadinbrzezinski Mar 2013 #20

250k puts one in the top 5% of income earners n2doc Mar 2013 #17

This is why the definition of middle class we use nadinbrzezinski Mar 2013 #19

real estate has gone crazy in some places hfojvt Mar 2013 #23

You really have Nailed It herre. bvar22 Mar 2013 #18