Is it trendy again or something? Bugger that. I'm not working class. And I'm proud of it.

Class war never went away. Thatcher thought she could put the fire of class conflist out. In fact she only stoked it, and so is Blair.

Julie Birchill is a big whinging commie hypocrite, with all her money and property she still thinks she has a monopoly on working classness, but just like her right on authortarian new labour, old tories/national socialists companions shes about as working class as john licklejohnny.

Anyone who has seen my previous conributions will know that I am engaged in some serious thought about what the term 'class' actually means in a British context.
I have put it to you that before anything else, you must answer the dilemma, that nowhere else in the 'advanced world' is 'class' so much part of thinking, yet simultaneously is the concept of socialism so far away.
This massive paradox has not been addressed; it is unfortunate that the capitalism so studied ad infinitum by Karl Marx turned out to be the form most stable, and thus least typical. I go so far as to say that, just as Einstein had to formulate a SPECIAL theory of Relativity to cope with certain problems found in untypical situations, so we must forumulate a special theory of class to cope with the British situation. Until the British working class becomes socialist in its thinking, all talk of class is a red herring.

One of the peculiarities of british class is that it remains rigid in times of crisis. Whereas other societeies undergo servere distortions and suspensions of class relations, the British people show an errie tendency to maintain them no matter what, and its not healthy. Indeed we witness it within the socialist movement too, and unless it is overcome, all this MORI rubbish about 'class' will remain precisely rubbish....

One of the peculiarities of british class is that it remains rigid in times of crisis. Whereas other societeies undergo servere distortions and suspensions of class relations, the British people show an errie tendency to maintain them no matter what, and its not healthy. Indeed we witness it within the socialist movement too, and unless it is overcome, all this MORI rubbish about 'class' will remain precisely rubbish....