Comments on: Re: Class? http://ignore-your.tv/2006/06/17/re-class/ A god who is but a reflection of human frailty Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:50:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: J. Alva Scruggs http://ignore-your.tv/2006/06/17/re-class/comment-page-1/#comment-9462 J. Alva Scruggs Wed, 05 Jul 2006 06:07:55 +0000 http://ignore-your.tv/2006/06/17/re-class/#comment-9462 There's a subset of small business owners. People who can't or won't make themselves employable in the conventional structures. They tend not to be able to offer employment either, at least not regularly. Most of them live in rural or the less affluent urban areas. They're ineligible for union membership, by virtue of occasional hiring and/or the legal status of the business. The Ma and Pa stores are good example. The guy who owns a lawnmower, a weedwhacker, a chainsaw and a pickup truck is another. They're not looking to get rich. They just can't bring themselves to call someone "boss" every day. It's the American Dream (now with protected bankruptcy, the most common fate, almost completely out of reach and karoshi claiming many of the rest). We're going to have a whole class of effectively criminalized petit bourgeois soon. They, along with the downwardly mobile, formerly employable middle class, form the recruiting base for a populist authoritarian movement, and sometimes state sponsored domestic terrorist groups. Just like Trotsky says. There’s a subset of small business owners. People who can’t or won’t make themselves employable in the conventional structures. They tend not to be able to offer employment either, at least not regularly. Most of them live in rural or the less affluent urban areas. They’re ineligible for union membership, by virtue of occasional hiring and/or the legal status of the business. The Ma and Pa stores are good example. The guy who owns a lawnmower, a weedwhacker, a chainsaw and a pickup truck is another. They’re not looking to get rich. They just can’t bring themselves to call someone “boss” every day. It’s the American Dream (now with protected bankruptcy, the most common fate, almost completely out of reach and karoshi claiming many of the rest).

We’re going to have a whole class of effectively criminalized petit bourgeois soon. They, along with the downwardly mobile, formerly employable middle class, form the recruiting base for a populist authoritarian movement, and sometimes state sponsored domestic terrorist groups. Just like Trotsky says.

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