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Oh polls! Again, the perfect way to get internet attention when I don’t have time to write. I think I will post my Co-op Anti-Dysfunction Pledge later in the week though. Some actual new content on my journal. Whoo-hoo!

Why this poll? Mostly I was curious what people would say. Honestly, I still have the residual feeling that internet users would not identify as working class so I was surprised to see it running neck and neck for so long. I also felt like there should be some discussion of labor and class on Labor Day. Even if it’s Sell-Out, Business Unionism Day and not May 1. But I’d never kick a holiday out of bed so read the previous sentence as pure hyperbole.

Mostly we’re Americans from the US here, so I assumed the discussion would be all over the place. The discussion of class in this country is confusing. I don’t think it’s any accident that people who insisted on the phrase "relation to the means of production" were a Canadian, a Brit, and a Trot. Not that I don’t love you all for it! But in this "post industrial" world, at least our part of it, I do think that phrase is more of a abstraction than ever. Maybe I’m wrong.

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