The middle class-why do they invade the left? Take GR/SWP/SYUCD for example

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Sunday February 17, 2002 11:53

by UCD's don cortino

they really piss me off. They have no sense of the class struggle. They are only romantics

Why do the middle class invade the left? Take the SWP, Globalise Resistance and Socialist Youth in UCD.

Its all full of middle class "chappies" who speak with Dublin 4 accents.

They talk of making life better for the working class. Have they ever experienced working class life? Have they ever experienced the struggle to survive for some?The problems of not having enough money to pay the bills. The problems of having to cut back on goods for the home by their parents?

The answer is no. They have nearly everything. Their parents have big cars big houses in nice clean areas. They are as far from the working class as is George W. Bush.

They have no experience of socialism of proper socialism. What they have learned they have learned from a book or what they are told. They never witnesed the class struggle.

They are a hinder to the movement. Middle Class people claiming to be socialist destroy our links to the working class.

Imagine sending a middle class D4 speaking "socialist" to a working class area telling the people what they should be doing, they would simply get a "f**k off" reply. Now send a working class person to a working class area to talk to another working class person, they would listen, because they are on the same pathway, they are both part of the class struggle wether the know it or not.