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In reply to the discussion: In the U.S. 49.7 Million Are Now Poor, and 80% of the Total Population Is Near Poverty [View all]KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)63. With all due respect and thanks for your efforts, I'm not sure the need for a
"middle class" is as great as your final paragraph asserts. Aside from the fact that a middle class presumes, per se, both a 'lower' class and an 'upper' class, on what grounds does society need a 'middle class'? Instead, I would argue, we need a dictatorship of the proletariat and the death of the bourgeoisie (meaning those who live off 'rents'). As Big Bill Haywood of the IWW said some 100 years ago, ""When one man has a dollar he hasn't worked for, some other man is missing a dollar he did work for." That to me is some damned compelling logic and I've never seen an effective refutation of it.
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In the U.S. 49.7 Million Are Now Poor, and 80% of the Total Population Is Near Poverty [View all]
TalkingDog
Dec 2014
OP
It's not ignored at all. It's cultivated to help the wealthy stay healthy. For now. n/t
jtuck004
Dec 2014
#50
They were never near poor either. Mitt's dad was Chairman of American Motors, Gov. of
NewDeal_Dem
Dec 2014
#45
Maybe... there are an awful lot of people 2 paychecks away from homeless...
SomethingFishy
Dec 2014
#51
If you are earning $13,000 per year and living on your own, not with some family
JDPriestly
Dec 2014
#58
People should put money away. But you would not make it very far on what you have.
JDPriestly
Dec 2014
#76
"Our party" and the fascists both represent the interests of the bourgeoisie, who
KingCharlemagne
Dec 2014
#20
Actually, bourgeois probably comes from the word "burg" which means town in German.
JDPriestly
Dec 2014
#61
With all due respect and thanks for your efforts, I'm not sure the need for a
KingCharlemagne
Dec 2014
#63
If you read the article from which I quoted, the middle class, the bourgeosie was made up of
JDPriestly
Dec 2014
#64
Don't get me wrong. As a historical artifact, the bourgeoisie was a highly liberating element
KingCharlemagne
Dec 2014
#65
"The comfort of the rich relies on an abundance of the poor." Voltaire
Tierra_y_Libertad
Dec 2014
#19
“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited
Tierra_y_Libertad
Dec 2014
#23
"All private property is theft." Proudhon. I'm going to stick with the French, who got there
KingCharlemagne
Dec 2014
#25
I can say from the experience of the last few years, "near poverty" is very different from poverty
bhikkhu
Dec 2014
#27
I grew up vacillating between poor and near poor and your post definitely rang
KingCharlemagne
Dec 2014
#30
I think some of my residual anger issues derive from late childhood and
KingCharlemagne
Dec 2014
#36
Don't blame yourself for what capitalism has caused and continues to cause. As for
KingCharlemagne
Dec 2014
#47
An ever deepening rift in everyday reality. From those who live in the real world.
raouldukelives
Dec 2014
#38
with help from our lovely democratic and republican politicians, mission accomplished nt
msongs
Dec 2014
#40
And people on here finger wag at poor people for not having a diverse portfolio
Skeeter Barnes
Dec 2014
#56