[Peace-discuss] News from Neptune #437 notes

[David Green]

Thanks to Jeff for providing the link to Wikipedia regarding my reference
to the Professional Managerial Class, PMC, which was coined by the
Ehrenreichs in the 1970s, and is the basis for Barbara Ehrenreich's great
but mostly forgotten book, "Fear of Falling: the Inner Life of the Middle
Class", which I used when I taught Sociology of Education 30 years ago. The
Wikipedia article refers to as much as much as 30% or so of the population
in this category, and that may be technically true in terms of occupational
definitions. But as I stressed on the program, and as I have stressed in
other contexts, I'm really referring to no more than 10% of the population,
that portion that now owns 3/4 of the wealth. PMC members referred to in
the Wikipedia article, especially teachers, nurses, etc., have a much more
ambiguous status, characterized by an increasingly high level of
unionization.

This 10% is now the basis for the "meritocratic" class that supports the
Clintonite/Warrenite Democratic Party, which has become increasingly
tenuous due to its alienation of the "white working class," and its frayed
relationship with POC in the post-Obama era.

DG

On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 8:27 AM J.B. Nicholson via Peace-discuss <
peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> News from Neptune #437
> Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCtgxNdPSIk
> A "Ending U.S. War?" edition
>
> A list of links to items referenced on the show.
>
> President Trump on "GOING INTO THE MIDDLE EAST IS THE WORST DECISION EVER
> MADE..."
> https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1181905659568283648
>
> Tulsi Gabbard on "Trump is not removing troops from Syria"
>
> https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1181984126083186688/pu/vid/360x504/QXA2SiMwPESphIGV.mp4
> https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1181984547963101189.html
>
>
>
> Benjamin Studebaker, Aimee Terese's show "What's Left?"
> https://soundcloud.com/whatisleftpod/ep-1-whats-left-of-the-left --
> Episode 1
> https://twitter.com/whatisleftpod -- Twitter account
> https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:595199712/sounds.rss
> --
> RSS feed
>
> Paul Left on "On the TrumpenLeft and False Equivalence"
>
> https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/10/11/on-the-trumpenleft-and-false-equivalence/
>
> Anthony Dimaggio on "Fake News in Trump's America"
> https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/10/11/fake-news-in-trumps-america/
>
> Andrew Levine on "Trump's End Days"
> https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/10/11/trumps-end-days-2/
>
> C.J. Hopkins on "Trumpenstein Must Be Destroyed!"
> https://www.unz.com/chopkins/trumpenstein-must-be-destroyed/
> https://consentfactory.org/2019/10/04/trumpenstein-must-be-destroyed/
>
> David Green on "Challenging Nicholas Kristof’s Claim of “Thousands More
> Jeffrey Epsteins”"
>
> https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/10/02/challenging-nicholas-kristofs-claim-of-thousands-more-jeffrey-epsteins/
>
> C. G. Estabrook responding to Louis Proyect on the Marxism mailing list
> https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2019-October/292145.html
>
> Jim Dey articles in the News-Gazette
> https://www.news-gazette.com/users/profile/jim%20dey/
>
> Julie Wurth on "UI investigates anti-Semitism complaints"
>
> https://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/university-illinois/ui-investigates-anti-semitism-complaints/article_c84f3c70-eb64-11e9-b41f-db8a3d1aaa7f.html
>
> Related: "Chancellor releases statement addressing antisemitism"
>
> https://dailyillini.com/news/2019/10/11/chancellor-releases-statement-addressing-antisemitism/
>
> Julie Wurth articles in the News-Gazette
> https://www.news-gazette.com/users/profile/Julie%20Wurth
>
>
>
> "Those Who Served" series in the News-Gazette
> https://usveterans.news-gazette.com/
>
> Paul Wood on "Those Who Served: 'Working in fear and isolation are the
> real
> corroding elements'"
>
> https://www.news-gazette.com/news/those-who-served-working-in-fear-and-isolation-are-the/article_b4a7d21d-8ce1-5be9-b9d9-5b7059159c8b.html
>
> Working Class History audio program
> http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:354109835/sounds.rss
> --
> RSS feed
> https://libcom.org/library/working-class-history-podcast -- links to
> episodes, show information
>
> Related:
>
> http://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/484912140-workingclasshistory-gi-resistance-in-vietnam-2.mp3
> -- episode mentioning Jerry Lembcke and the spitting myth
>
> Related:
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/13/opinion/myth-spitting-vietnam-protester.html
> -- Jerry Lembcke article on the spitting myth
>
> "1984" by George Orwell
> http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021.txt
> https://www.george-orwell.org/1984
>
> Vietnam Syndrome
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_Syndrome
>
> Robert Parry on "Kicking the Vietnam Syndrome"
> http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/022811.html
>
> Professional-managerial class
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional-managerial_class
>
>
>
> PBS NewsHour on "Deep State" by James B. Stewart
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WXsGvwH4ng
>
>
>
> Democracy Now on "“Racism in America Is Endemic”: Democratic Candidates
> Vow
> to Confront White Supremacy & Legacy of Slavery"
>
> https://www.democracynow.org/2019/9/13/democratic_debate_white_supremacy_racism
>
> John Clegg on "How Slavery Shaped American Capitalism"
> https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/08/how-slavery-shaped-american-capitalism
>
> Benjamin Studebaker on "Cotton is Not What Made the United States Rich"
>
> https://benjaminstudebaker.com/2019/09/03/cotton-is-not-what-made-the-united-states-rich/
>
>
> Research notes
> https://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace-discuss/2019-October/051328.html
>
> -J
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