Word: classlessness
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Levison sees revolutionary possibilities in American workers--he does not fall into a moronic "classless society" argument. For Levison, workers are a progressive force in the present, capable of fighting for redistributive taxation, a full employment economy, national health reform, representation in the workplace and workers' control. All of these issues are part of working-class self-interest, and Levison sees the potential to go beyond this advanced welfare-state liberalism...
Equalizing opportunity, then, turns out to be inextricably tied up with creating a classless society...So long as the distribution of power and privilege among adults remains radically unequal, and so long as some children are raised by adults who have "all the advantages," while others are raised by adults who have all the disadvantages, children will inevitably turn out unequal. This may be partly because parents with time, money and the respect of their fellows can do a better job raising their children than parents who lack these things. But children raised in different circumstances will also require different...
Jencks's arguments do not follow the logical one-two pattern he feels they do. While he may believe that a classless society must also be a family-less society, he cannot substantiate that view. If it is true that parents with "different circumstances," with "time, money and the respect of their fellows" will produce children more advantaged than certain other parents, why not deal directly with that problem and equalize the "circumstances?" Why not provide the time and money (the respect will follow) for all parents? If it is true that altered social status also alters patterns of class...
Despite his rather reserved, fiduciary tone, Auchincloss generates some psychological subtlety and emotional range. He also manages to comment on his own situation as a novelist of manners-through a character who is a novelist of manners. "Society is intent on becoming classless, and the novel of manners must deal with classes," says the N.O.M., who allows that his following can be found among the "old girls and boys who still take me to the hospital for their hysterectomies and prostates...
There is only one class on the Lermontov, the first Soviet passenger ship to sail into New York harbor in 25 years. One member of that classless society was Composer Dmitry Shostakovich, 66, who after disembarking with his wife Irina, took in Aïda, one of his favorites, at the Metropolitan Opera...