existential1 wrote on October 28, 2020 at 12:08 AM

Reply to comment by GlangSnorrisson in What makes someone middle class? by cycles

Yeah, it's broad enough to be widely applicable and understandable but not so specific it can't be contextualized to edge cases.

For example, I lived a lot of my life working-poor and would probably hit the conception of "middle class" by some metrics a few years ago, but my other perceived identities prevent simple things like owning a house from making me comfortable with police...or a hell of a lot of other state-entities.

GlangSnorrisson wrote on October 28, 2020 at 12:13 AM

Absolutely. I think that to frame middle-class as a strictly material thing is too reductive to be all that useful to an anarchist.

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