Classical Liberal Roots of the Marxist Doctrine of Classes

[tracysaboe]

http://www.mises.org/story/2217

Tracy

[aries]

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These articles are always interesting despite taking 2+ hours to read and comprehend, and arguing a totally theoretical and irrelevant point.

[KBCraig]

These articles are always interesting despite taking 2+ hours to read and comprehend, and arguing a totally theoretical and irrelevant point.

LOL... you just summed up why I almost never read anything from mises.org.

[FrankChodorov]

in the US the same sort of class interest politics coalesced around something called "Producerism" during the populist era and the lineage going back is thru Jackson's attacks on bankers and Jefferson's agrarianism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Producerism

excerpt:
Producerism can be viewed as a form of middle-class militancy feeding off a "dual-edged resentment" against both rich and poor. Like Marxism, it subscribes to the labor theory of value and supports a narrative of exploitation between the classes, but there is a crucial difference between the two systems: Producerists believe that it is the middle class, not the proletariat, which generates the surplus value that is then expropriated by parasitic elements (executive class). Also, while Marx viewed capital as a monolithic interest, Producerists distinguish between productive domestic industrial capital that serves the national interest and speculative, idle financial capital that holds no patriotic loyalties and is international in nature.