To DJP & ALB: first of all
April 2026 › Forums › General discussion › The ‘Occupy’ movement › To DJP & ALB: first of all
To DJP & ALB: first of all I did not have any direct contact with the people involved in the occupy movement, so the “label” I gave to them of being middle class was merely based on the impression that I got from the media. ALB has been there and says that I am wrong and this makes me feel more positive.About the precise definition of what is middle class and what is working class this is a complex and long matter. If it is needed I will explicit it later. Anyway, ALB feeling is right, I inadequately considered middle class, in fact, the reactionary part of the workers, that is, university-educated people, let’s say the ones for which their work should be simplified several times to obtain the unit of simple abstract labour. My point was, that by being, nowadays, the bargaining power of the majority of workers very very low they cannot afford to demonstrate. Who can do it, so? Unemployed people, people without job uncertainty, pensioners? This does not make this protest less important, but if it was down to reactionary ‘alternative’ people, no-global kind of types, that would make me pessimist. That’s all. To ALB: Please do not get me wrong I was not criticizing the SPGB of being amorphous, but I was just saying like SussexSocialist puts that this movement seemed to me like a ‘lets-have-nicer-capitalism-with-honest-politicians-and-less-greed’ kind of movement. I think you are doing a good job being there and spreading the “Magic”
