Working class (or lower class, labouring class) is a term used in the social sciences and in ordinary conversation to describe those employed in lower tier jobs (as measured by skill, education and lower incomes), often extending to those in unemployment or otherwise possessing below-average incomes. Working classes are mainly found in industrialized economies and in urban areas of non-industrialized economies.

Analyzing the concept of what the working class means from opposite points of views, from the left,

Karl Marx defined the working class or proletariat as individuals who sell their labor power for wages and who do not own the means of production. He argued that they were responsible for creating the wealth of a society.

He asserted that the working class physically build bridges, craft furniture, grow food, and nurse children, but do not own land, or factories. A sub-section of the proletariat, the lumpenproletariat (rag-proletariat), are the extremely poor and unemployed, such as day laborers and homeless people.

And from the right, as Adolf Hitler wrote in his book Mein Kampf,

What will happen one day when hordes of emancipated slaves come forth from these dens of misery to swoop down on their unsuspecting fellow men ? For this other world does not think about such a possibility.

They (the government, the governors and the burgeoise) have allowed these things to go on without caring and even without suspecting–in their total lack of instinctive understanding–that sooner or later destiny will take its vengeance unless it will have been appeased in time.

As the quote continues,

For those who emerged from all this misfortune and misery, from this filth and outward degradation, were not human beings as such but rather lamentable results of lamentable laws. In those days I already saw that there was a two-fold method by which alone it would be possible to bring about an amelioration of these conditions.

This method is: first, to create better fundamental conditions of social development by establishing a profound feeling for social responsibilities among the public; second, to combine this feeling for social responsibilities with a ruthless determination to prune away all excrescences which are incapable of being improved.

But because the State have almost no sense of social rights or social legislation, its inability to abolish those evil excrescences is manifest – the economic misery of those, their crude customs and morals, and the low level of their intellectual culture.

With both extremes tending to agree in a common point about the working class, both Democrats and Capitalists tend to either completely ignore the issue, or find that the lack of opportunity given to an individual to improve itself as a human being is clearly the individuals own fault, which by so deserves no support whatsoever – they should simply work harder, while earning less, most commonly for the profit of those who “deserve it”.

The results of years of  this carelessness manifests itself in what we see around today, all over the world, as in for example,

Workers in trouble: US middle class disappearing

https://rt.com/usa/news/workers-usa-middle-class/

The US was once home to the picture-perfect American dream. A house, a car, and a job symbolized the middle class as the core of a prosperous country. Yet for an increasing amount of Americans some or all of these are now out of reach.

“This country was founded on the ideals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. How can you be happy if you can’t pay your rent? How is this American in any shape or form?” asked journalist and activist Mike Elk.

The new America is littered with millions of homes lost and abandoned with the unemployed officially numbered at over 13 million still queuing to get a job. Does this mean the middle class is disappearing in the US?

“There have been 4 pillars that supported the American middle class: the chance to retire, the chance to send your kids to higher education, graduate school or university, the chance to work and afford a comfortable standard of living, and access to medical care. And if we look, all four of these pillars are chipped, cracked or swaying,” explained economist Max Fraad Wolff from the New School in New York.

Today over 60 percent of Americans say they typically live paycheck to paycheck – leaving little for college fees, mortgage payments or retirement. The US is increasingly being divided into rich and poor with the traditionally large center – the middle class – being squeezed out. The bottom 50 percent of earners today own less than 1 percent of the country’s wealth.

“America has gone from being the most egalitarian nation back in the 1960s and early 70s, to now, where the gap between the rich and the poor is the widest in the United States than any of the industrialized nations. So, by every index the middle class is dead in America,” said trends forecaster Gerald Celente.

Caleb is from a traditional American middle class family. The 23-year-old college graduate lives in a rented basement, and says middle class jobs do not exist anymore.

“I was taught all my life by the media and in school that the U.S. was the greatest country in the world, because if you just work hard, you can be part of this magical middle class. I am part of a generation of youth who will never have this so-called American dream,” he sighed.

Finding work on average takes eight and a half months now and with 6 Americans vying for each job, the prospects for the country’s youth look dim.

“The future that lies is living in basements like I do. Some of them are becoming homeless. Others are going to prison. There is increased crime and drug use, and things like that. There is also the wars – the military, they don’t have a recruitment problem anymore now that the economy has declined so much“, said Caleb.

While everything is crumbling around us, do you think the people will stay calm and content about its own desperate situation ? I would rather think, not. So many people described this exact same situation since hundreds years back, underlining the desperate situation of its own citizens versus the greed of the mediocre, alienated, yet higher class, who seem to have completely ignored the situation and let it go further than it should have, with the simple aim of reaching, more and more, its own egoistic, selfish goals. Only thinking about itself.

Nothing works like that tho, natural selection lies to no one, there are masses and they can not be cheated forever, and as the situation worsen, it will all be sourly spit back, all in one go.

With both extremes being the ones talking about people, social reforms, and the ones that could not care less completely bankrupt, in crisis, and proven to be a total failure of a system, I predict an eventual comeback, depending on regional characteristics, to either one side or the other; the ones with stronger national emphasis to the far right, while the ones with not so strong national emphasis, to the far left. And the ones with weak politics and convitions, being colonized and controlled by either one or the other, or whoever of the two that may happen to be geographically closer.