Working-class culture is aspirational and shares radical kinship with aristocratic values, not bourgeois levelling

Evidence

Everyone knows that there has always been a deep affinity between the working class and the aristocracy. Fundamentally aspirational, working-class culture is foreign to the levelling impulse of bourgeois culture — and of course this can be politically ambivalent, since if aspiration is about the pursuit of status and authority, it will confirm and vindicate the bourgeois world. It is only if the desire to escape inspires taking a line of flight towards the proletarian collective body and Nu-earth that it is politically positive. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 840

Categorization

• XREF: Extends chapter 13’s account and the recurring Deleuzean ‘line of flight’ language of Ballard/glam k-punk; also takes class politics beyond the levelling egalitarianism foregrounded across earlier chapters. — connects to: Nobility is an attainable ethical posture, not a birthright of any social class — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 837; Labor is means-oriented while aristocratic ethos centers on personal being — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 515; Working-class consciousness requires spiritual and cultural self-reproduction that Marxian theory overlooked — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1372 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Labor is means-oriented while aristocratic ethos centers on personal being #expands (0.85) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 515
• The American ruling class historically shared a vocation of work with workers #qualifies (0.75) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1126
• Working-class consciousness requires spiritual and cultural self-reproduction that Marxian theory overlooked #expands (0.72) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1372