The wall street protests have a certain element of class warfare, although obviously it's not the Russian Revolution.
I'm curious where on the spectrum the forum falls in terms of the protest of the "99% against the 1%" (I suspect those stats are not accurate, but this is what is being voiced).
`Class warfare' is a term meaningful in England where the press uses it.
In the US the press seems reticent to use the term ... as if not talking about it could prevent the same real-world results avoided by an ostrich with its head in the sand.
George Orwell's Animal Farm did a pretty good job of portraying Stratification of classes which emerge in any-every hierarchy.
All animals are created equal ... and may remain so until a hierarchy emerges in which more-equal pigs emerge.
I'm one of the 1% who does not have mod or admin privileges which render me more-equal in THIS socio-impolitical setting.
Shhhhh ... let's not talk about he elephant in the living room and only notice the `class warfare' in effect elsewhere ... yeah, that Occupy Wall Street thingy.
Pay no attention to `the man' behind the curtain ... with `Super Mod'
class here in this forum or the more-equal status provided by a 6 or 7-figure income on Wall Street.
Same shit ... different context.
Surprise! Classes and inequalities emerge in hierarchies.
People simply LOVE Orwellian more-equal status while paying lip service to fairness, equality, law & order, etc.
There was an asshole in another group who had Super Mod status and used it to issue me an infraction via that more-equal class status ... now he's over here as a penny stinker raising issues about moderation after abusing more-equal `moderator' status elsewhere.
My point?
Whether its `class warfare' or interclass competition or interclass interaction ... a person's class/category derived power CAN and DOES greatly effect their de facto rights and privileges.
By way of an experiment how about asking the owner of this group how much of a `donation' you'd have to make to have the Admin and mods all flushed out and a slate of candidates put up for election.
My guess is that you'd find out about `class warfare' and how money can buy (im)political favors.
A bank made a `donation' of several million dollars to the NYPD before the Occupy Wall street protests commenced.
Though how could anyone suspect that such a `donation' bought them any influence or favoritism with the police commissioner or mayor?
Yes, Virgina, classes DO exist or SEEM TO ... and every hierarchy in which you ever participate will find you with status, power, and influence commensurate with your `class' within the hierarchy.
All that bullshit you've heard about freedom of speech and freedom of assembly is just that when more-equal others can censor you and/or prevent you from assembling (EG signing on and reading the (by)products of others using freedom of speech/expression).
A more-equal paternalist may not behold his or her suppression, suspension, or ever-so-slight `revision' of your would-be Rights or privileges as `warfare' ... though you might.
One man's experience of (class) `warfare' might be another man's notion of `good governance'.
Feel free to ask each member of the `staff' class here just to get their individual takes on `class warfare' vs paternalistic nondemocratic `good governance' ;-)