Class Warfare...

[exploited]

I don't think class can really be divided into neat categories, but I think it nonetheless exists, at least insofar as people of common socio-economic status tend to group with one another. You can see this in how people talk on a daily basis - go analyze the voice and behavioral patterns of someone talking to their friend versus someone they perceive to be higher up in the social hierarchy, like a celebrity, and it is obvious something is going on inside the brain.

Man is a social animal, and the basis of our existence is our senses. It is no coincidence that those with the most power are also those with the ability to best satisfy their sensory needs, through material possession, or the fulfillment of a fetish of one kind or another (i.e.desire for power). The hierarchy exists, class exists, but it's analysis has been poor so far. Science will help with that, as you suggest.

[stripe66506]

[stripe66506]

[cool_chick]

Nice to see you, Stripe.

[stripe66506]

[pricklysponge]

Life under capitalism is quite clearly characterized by different individuals occupying different positions within the economic structure with different respective standpoints in relation to the means of production [and therefore also in relation to one another]. Moreover, an individuals standpoint in relation to the means of the production will, as a matter of empirical observation, tend to condition other aspects of their life. So class is quite clearly a phenomenon of significance.

I fail to see how an attempted analysis of this phenomenon is "drawing random circles around people." In fact, class is a concept of central importance even among bourgeois historians, sociologists, economists, etc.

[Revenant]

quite clearly

[Boris Johnson]

[stripe66506]

[The Dharma Bum]

Bah, he's just trying to avoid the implication labor relations and class distinction by drawing a false distinction between "service" labor and manufacturing labor.

It's labor, it produces profit for the company. There is no difference between this type of labor and any other, except it is probably significantly lower pay than a manufacturing job. In this regard the labor class needs even more protection due to the shift toward a service economy not less.