Class Consciousness and Its Absence in the US, UK, and the Global South

One thing I like about the British is that they do have a sense of class consciousness. I remember when Thatcher died, young working class people burned the witch in effigy in the projects they lived in. You will never see that in the US.

A lot of the British working class have a class view of themselves as working class people. This is probably due to the yeoman’s work the Labor Party has put in over the years in promoting a class point of view.

Also class is a much bigger deal in the UK than it is in the US. You can literally tell someone’s class by how they talk! And the upper classes might not even talk to a lower class person.

Britain’s long been known for having a brutal class system along with a terrible upper class who are widely hated by the lower classes, as is proper.

The working and even lower classes in the US lack this. In fact, no one has any class consciousness in the US except for the upper middle class and the rich, but they all lie and say they don’t. In the US, donc…