[news] The Class Chasm Undermines Political Solidarity

[Resist!ca]

I have recently begun to realize that the stigma of poverty may actually be more damaging to poor people than the poverty itself, in some instances. Parts of poverty would be bearable if we were all in a class solidarity. But I am uncomfortable with class inequity. This thing where some are supposed to suffer in the lower class, while their political "allies" live at a higher class level, with private transportation, no hunger, adequate clothing, stable housing, job opportunities not available to the poor, etc., does not really work for me, if I am to be honest. This class chasm is often as agitating and degrading as the direct effects of the poverty itself.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/23/1111/7659