You can’t say, ‘We are a multitude, isn’t it fantastic’. You have to say: What are the issues facing the mass of people and where do those masses have the power to change society? And those people whose lives are completely messed by people, who are forced to work day in, day out, whose time is measured by capitalism. That’s what I mean by the working class – it is quite dishonest for Michael Hardt to use the phrase ‘industrial working class’. I said the industrial working class has not disappeared but I find that, for instance, my partner who is a teacher, her life is more and more like the life my father used to lead because he was a plumber. People have been more and more moulded together into a certain life pattern by capitalism, it is a working class life pattern, whether they work in an office, a school or a factory. That is where we have to organise. That is where we have to tap the power. Chris Harman
Posted on: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 11:11:49 +0000
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