marx, schmarx

I'm tired of reading about socialism. Does this mean I'm ready to leave grad school? Hopefully.

Anyway, in the excerpt from "The Post-Industrial Society," Daniel Bell describes the shifting work population in this society. I've heard this stuff before, and this is pretty dated. But since he's one of the first to describe this stuff, I suppose interesting from a historical perspective, as he's hypothesizing somewhat, and has far less information than we do now about trends coming into the 21st century.

I think the best part I read here was a critique of the monolithic "system" in socialist theory.

There is no 'system' which 'reproduces' the existing division of labor in the next generation, but many different trends deriving from the diverse sources of occupational trends in the United States.

Take that, you imaginary proletariat class!