Settlers - San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center

these are placed into one bourgeois-petit-bourgeois grouping
(which contains what are separate classes). This is based
on the 1970 Census:
BOURGEOIS & MIDDLE CLASSES - 37%"
Managers 12.17%
Professionals 15.34%
Salesman, Agents & Brokers 5.20%
Farmowners & Managers 3.11%
Clerical- Admin. 1.15%
CORE OF LABOR ARISTOCRACY - 24%
Craftsmen 21.82%
Protective security
(police, firemen, etc.)
1.90%
WORKERS (INCLUDES MUCH OF LABOR
ARISTOCRACY) - 39%
Factory & Transport,
Machine Operators 18.31%
Laborers 6.87%
Clerical 6.45%
Retail Sales Clerks 2.31%
General Service 5.30%
(4)
*The actual U.S. bourgeoisie is abnormally large. The
wealthiest 1% of the U.S. Empire's population - one out
of every 100 adults of all nationalities (primarily Euro-
Amerikan) - own an average of $1.32 million each. (5)
This is the zone where the upper petit-bourgeoisie and local
bourgeoisie meet. Earlier studies indicate that the actual
Big Bourgeoisie (DuPonts, Rockefellers, Morgans, etc.) is
only a fraction of this number, perhaps as few as 15,000 individuals.
This breakdown of Euro-Amerikan male occupations
has a very clear meaning, verifying everything about
White Amerika that daily life has told us.
The bourgeois, the middle classes and the core of
the labor aristocracy are the absolute majority (over 60%).
The labor aristocracy is swollen in size. Almost 2 out of
every 100 male Euro-Amerikans are policemen, firemen or
other protective security workers. Highly-paid construction
tradesmen, machinists, mechanics and other skilled
craftsmen outnumber ordinary production and transportation
workers. Even this greatly understates the extent of
the settler labor aristocracy. Many Euro-Amerikan factory
workers, technicians, clerical workers, and even general
laborers (such as municipal Park Department "laborers"
in the major cities) receive extra-proletarian wages,
sometimes doing light labor and usually no toil at all. The
settler labor aristocracy is considerably larger than its hard
core, perhaps comprising as much as 50% of all male
Euro-Amerikans.
Philistine Mode of Life
Most importantly, Euro-Amerikans share an exceptional
way of life. What is so exceptional about it is that
almost all get to live in a bourgeois way, 'quite Philistine
in the mode of life, in the size of their earnings and in their
entire outlook ..." Thus, the mass of the lower middle
classes, the huge labor aristocracy, and most workers are
fused together by a common national way of life and a
common national ideology as oppressors. The masses
share a way of life that apes the bourgeoisie, dominated by
a decadent preoccupation with private consumption. Con-
*Ma0 Zedong, for example, in his social investigation of
China's countryside, found significance not just in
economic roles, but in concomitant social changes: "As to
the authority of the husband, it has always been comparatively
weak among poor peasants, because the poor
peasant women, for financial reasons compelled to engage
more in manual work than women in the wealthier classes,
have obtained greater rights to speak and more power to
make decisions in family affairs. They also enjoy considerable
sexual freedom. Among the poor peasants
triangular and multilateral relationships are most universal.
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