Who’s middle class?
Originally published: Red Flag on May 14, 2022 by Diane Fieldes (more by Red Flag) (Posted May 17, 2022) This article is part of a series on social classes in Australia, which also includes pieces on the working class and the ruling class. Of all classes, the middle class is the one with the most people clamouring to be part of it. Many members of the ruling class prefer the label “middle” to one that makes capitalist dominance so overt. Many workers think that having a middle-income job by default puts them in the middle class. And people who want to downplay the working class’s revolutionary potential prefer to say,…