There is no such thing as a classless capitalist economy. Nor is it possible to have a functioning economy comprised of middle-management and professionals. Yet, Irish common sense insists that the southern state is a free-market capitalist economy with no class issues, because the vast majority are middle class. But, with no class issues […]
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A couple of people have commented on the analysis of class as presented in Tuesday’s post. It was taken from Michael Zweig’s book, The Working Class Majority: America’s Best Kept Secret (Cornell University Press, 2000). It is such an excellent piece of work that I’ve decided to carry on with doing my bit to […]
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… the mind of man becomes
A thousand times more beautiful than the earth
On which he dwells, above this frame of things
(Which, ‘mid all revolution in the hopes
And fears of men, doth still remain unchanged)
In beauty exalted, as it is itself
Of quality and fabric more divine. (Wordsworth. Prelude, 1805)
People are the greatest thing.
A point all […]
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Joe Cleary does not do generations.
His latest book, Outrageous fortune: Capital and Culture in Modern Ireland, is a series of self-contained essays, linked by common themes and approaches. “It seeks… to map the intersecting forces that structure the field of modern Irish literary and cultural production,” writes Cleary, “and to query some of the received […]
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