NOT P&N I don't believe in class distinctions anymore...

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Otto wrote:
> 
> I think I've told you before that I'm the only union member among
> approximately 70 drivers, but not because I believe in the marxian
> nomenclature but because if gives me the freedom to say whatever I want to
> my boss; he cannot fire me without loosing 10000 euros.

Why are you the only union member? Don't the other drivers want to be
able to tell the boss "whatever"  and get away with it? Union membership
in Germany is quite unique and complicated and very different than in
the USA or Brazil. However, those old Marxian ideas and the names that
go along with them are quite useful when we want to understand some of
economic forces in the world that are shaping the role unions are
playing in various nation states. The term "Working Class"  is term that
makes perfect sense to me because the people in it are the workers and
they must work for a living. 


Moreover, my point was about jargon and what has become the habit of so
many  intellectuals to say something in plain words. Imagine if some
jackass came onto my deck or your shop talking like Foucault or some
other French blabbleing book? Why we'd toss his ass out like a non-union
rat in a new york minute. Now, if wants to know why we call that jig
over there a "pony" we can't tell him cause no one knows. But that's
what we call it. 

And, the idea that one can go to Watts or become Down and Out in flea
bag motel Newark and naked light bulb London is kinda ridiculous. Don't
you think?