How Now “The New Class”?

The notion that there is a New Class in our society—”class” for large groups like owners or workers; “new” because Marx did not include it in his grand schema—is an idea that has arrived. After nearly a century of episodic and heated discussion, it has arrived, here in America, in perfect disarray.

The discussion of this concept was undertaken almost entirely within the socialist movement: most particularly, between disappointed thinkers on the way out and t...