JRS1 wrote:I should not have to eat the shit that you eat or listen to the same shit music or read the same shit books and change my background or appearance or look down on my family and friends.
QFT...
...but it's a two-way street.
The snag is that as I intimated right at the outset, if we allow ourselves to confuse the definitions and blur the boundaries of economic and social class, we arrive at a situation where we make assumptions about each other based on the shit we eat, the shit we watch, the shit we wear, the shit we read, the shit we drink, the shit we walk on the end of a lead, the shit we suport on a Saturday afternoon, etc, etc, ad nauseam.
If 'workingclass/proletarian' means eating junk, watching reality TV, wearing sports gear when we're not remotely sporty, reading tabloid newspapers, drinking lager and alcopops, owning 'status dogs', being a football hooligan, etc, etc, ad nauseam...then I am never going to be working class.
If, however, being proletarian means, 'working for the man', then I've been proletarian all my working life and am likely to remain so. Ergo, if I lend my support to democratic socialism who's to say I'm a 'middle class wanker'?