Leaving Our Middle-Class Role
Seán Ruth, International Liberation Reference Person for Middle-Class People
Our job as middle-class people is to make sure the class system functions smoothly and efficiently. Over the last period, middle-class RCers have made great strides in understanding how we got set up to play this role, the damage that was done to our humanity, and the way we were encouraged to be preoccupied with comfort and security.
We are getting clearer about the intersection of middle-class oppression and racism, sexism, anti-Jewish oppression, and all the other oppressions.
We are doing this work at a time when the economic system is becoming increasingly unstable, unworkable, and dangerous to the planet and its people. Class work has never been more important. Middle-class work has never been more important. It’s possible that we will see the collapse of this system in our lifetimes. That leaves us with different challenges.
What would happen if we middle-class people decided not to play the role assigned to us? What if we organized to get behind working-class people and people who were raised poor—got behind them as a solid group, not just as isolated individuals? What would happen if we decided to give up our preoccupation with comfort and security and instead organize our lives around liberation?
If you were raised middle class or you have a middle-class role, please do this work.
Stillorgan, County Dublin, Ireland