tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979578687599366473.post4532840151199504229..comments2023-04-09T03:22:54.607-07:00Comments on The LEFT Alternative - Formerly Cardiff RESPECT: 'O Arglwydd, dyma gamwedd' - Oh Lord, here is injustice: The Merthyr Commune of 1831Respectable Citizenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07647474524587893461noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979578687599366473.post-90970255989049953702008-06-02T02:23:00.000-07:002008-06-02T02:23:00.000-07:00I meant to include in the conclusion of this artic...I meant to include in the conclusion of this article a discussion of EP THompson's articulation of class being a relationship between people.<BR/><BR/>Edward Thompson, the great English socialist historian wrote in THE MAKING OF THE ENGLISH WORKING CLASS:<BR/><BR/>"class happens when some men, as a result of common experiences (inherited or shared), feel and articulate the identity of their interests as between themselves, and as against other men whose interests are different from (and usually opposed to) theirs. The class experience is largely determined by the productive relations into which men are born--or enter involuntarily. Class-consciousness is the way in which these experiences are handled in cultural terms: embodied in traditions, value-systems, ideas, and institutional forms. If the experience appears as determined, class-consciousness does not. We can see a logic in the responses of similar occupational groups undergoing similar experiences, but we cannot predicate any law. Consciousness of class arises in the same way in different times and places, but never in just the same way." <BR/><BR/>Adam JohannesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com