The Mark Steel Lectures-Aristotle 2/3

Written and delivered by Mark Steel, each scripted lecture presents persuasive, yet witty, arguments for the importance of a historical figure.

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[profglavin]

"Deeply nauseating tosser"

LOL!

[danco81]

I am sure your comments are well-intentioned, but I think you've slightly got the wrong end of the stick about Mark Steel. "He was expelled from Swanley Comprehensive School...at the age of 15, and went on to work in a garage and then live in a squat". He is a comedian and socialist activist, rather that a professor. While your argument as to the nature of class may be essentially sound, it seems to me a rather blunt tool for examining a complex issue.

[pistol117]

mark steel is brilliant!

[rundle19938]

Where are the pyramids? WHERE YOU BLOODY WELL LEFT THEM!

[natmanprime]

@bapyou ok good for you i agree now whats that got to do with what i said????

[bapyou]

@natmanprime "how did u get to coward wtf r u talking about?"

What I am taking about is working class people today have little real analysis of social/economic conditions; the how and why things are the way that they are. In the States, many WC people watch propaganda outlets such as Fox News and believe they're being educated, when, in fact, they're being given a line of propaganda without any historical background. Working class history is the history against employer exploitation.

[natmanprime]

@bapyou LOL how did u get to coward wtf r u talking about?

ooh "coward".

LOOOL

calm down on the militant shit dude.

it's just my experiance, whats propaganda got to do with it??

"no true analysis" wtf r u talking about???!?

i think youve been propagandized

[bapyou]

@natmanprime "proper working class aint left wing"

Or so you've been taught and propagandized to believe. In fact, "working class conservative" is an oxymoron. Emphasis on the moron.

Here in America, working class people who call themselves "conservative" are conservative only when it comes to social issues (abortion, etc.). About economics, they have no true analysis, only reaction.

Which, in all likelihood, is exactly what characterizes your own form of "conservatism." Coward.

[almanacofsleep]

@brcx300 He's a Comedian not a Professor

[bridgegood]

" When is something not what it was before " *shows Micheal Jackson pictures * EPIC

[GrassAndRocks]

Marx never argues that class is based solely on "wealth and education," nor upon where on the ladder you are born. This is a serious misconception that many people have of the Marxist notion of class. He argued that your class is predicated upon social relations, in particular how your position in relation to the means of production, do you own or work? Specifically he described capitalists, petty-bourgeoisie, workers, and peasants (holdover of feudal relations still present in some places).