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	Encyclopedia: Classlessness
		Classlessness refers to a type of society in which social classes do not exist.
		Classless societies are supposed to be highly egalitarian, and they are also meant to be against the concept of private property, as all things are shared.
		Classlessness also refers to the state of mind required in order to operate effectively as a social anthropologist.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Classlessness (872 words)

	Classlessness
		One of the curious results of certain class societies (or societies that are generally perceived to be based on class distinctions) is that people belonging to different social classes have different views on the class system as a whole.
		In Marxist thought, for example, contemporary society is divided in two social classes: the bourgeoisie (those who earn all or most of their income as a result of their ownership of various means of production) and the proletariat (those who earn all or most of their income by working as employees for a wage).
		Proponents also claim that it is reactionary to cling to outmoded class concepts, and that social policy should pursue classlessness as a means of removing discrimination.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/classlessness (609 words)

	Christian Anarchy (Eller) 3
		Classlessness can be achieved only by first locating the class distinction that is at the root of the difficulty.
		Yet that classlessness cannot happen by the direct approach of playing down the distinctions; the power of the oppressing class must first be broken.
		Here was a classless society, in the sense that the oppressed class had taken over completely and excluded the very presence of any other classes.
	www.hccentral.com /eller12/part3.html (8344 words)

	Statism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There are branches of socialism that reject state intervention altogether, such as libertarian socialism.
		The final goal of communism is a classless, propertyless and stateless society.
		Communists see the state only as a necessary evil until the creation of that society is possible.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Statist (642 words)

	Mode of production - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As no permanent surplus product is produced, there is also no possibility of a ruling class coming into existence.
		Some theorists argue that prefiguring forms of communism can be seen in communes and other collective living experiments.
		Communism is meant to be a classless society, with the management of things replacing the management of people.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mode_of_production (1794 words)

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		Visions of Classlessness, Quests for Dominion: American Popular Culture, 1945-1960 Roland Marchand The constraints and sacrifices of World War 1I did not prepare Americans to meet the realities of the postwar era with equanimity.t Expectations ran high, despite underlying anxieties about atomic perils and the possibility of a postwar depression.
		Although this process was to come to a standstill in the late 1940s, Americans emerged from the war confident of a snowballing trend toward economic democratization and a classless culture.2 Meanwhile, in what Frank Fox has characterized as "World of Tomorrow" advertising, business interests painted stirring images of the technological future.
		Life referred matter-of-factly in 1949 to blue jeans as part of a national teenage "uniform." By the 1950s these classless, vaguely "western" progeny of democratic G.I. dungarees had come to symbolize the triumph of denim as an equalizing casual wear for virtually all Americans.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~DRBR/march.txt (2608 words)

	Robert Brym -- Introductory Sociology
		Particular attention is paid to the rise of commerce and industry since the late Middle Ages, the spread of literacy, the growth of markets, and the proliferation of social contexts for intellectual discussion and debate.
		Instead, they are "members of a relatively classless stratum which is not too firmly embedded in the social order." Intellectuals are typically recruited from various classes.
		Meanwhile, theories of classlessness minimize the significance of social influences on the shaping of ideas.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /soc101y/brym/articles/intel.html (2965 words)

	Classlessness -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Classlessness refers to a type of society in which (People having the same social or economic status) social classes do not exist.
		Classless societies are highly (A person who believes in the equality of all people) egalitarian, and they often do not use the concept of (Movable property (as distinguished from real estate)) private property.
		Many are governed by a form of (additional info and facts about direct democracy) direct democracy.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/cl/classlessness.htm (290 words)

	Classlessness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This article covers a simple paradox about class consciousness, and defines classlessness as the state ofbeing in which one does not identify onself with any particular class as used in the vernacular.
		In Marxist thought, for example, contemporary society is dividedin two social classes: the bourgeoisie (those who earn all or most of their income as a result of their ownership of variousmeans of production) and the proletariat (those who earn all or most of their income by working as employees for a wage).
		Proponents also claim that it is reactionary to cling to outmoded classconcepts, and that social policy should pursue classlessness as a means of removing discrimination.
	therfcc.org /classlessness-114441.html (515 words)

	Bleeding Brain
		The notion of a classless system is appealing to me. I love societies that are set up in such a way that the rich and the poor are very hard to distinguish.
		I like societies where the president of a prestigious university carries his own boxes of stuff from his car to his office and cuts his own lawn on weekends and sits next to an office clerk in a plane as part of a seamless continuum of people.
		As it turns out, classlessness and all the other tenets of communism were promises that were all broken by the communist regimes and the ideology itself nothing but a colossal failure.
	bleedingbrain.blogspot.com /2003_05_11_bleedingbrain_archive.html (1297 words)

	JEANS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		People in society try to adapt themselves to be the same by wearing jeans because jeans are the symbol of classlessness.
		The meaning of high fashion, peculiarity, individuality and discrimination is against the Americans’ belief of classlessness.
		Jeans were the natural clothes for a new, classless, overseas culture based on youth and aggression.
	www.colorado.edu /iec/SUM97RW/JEANS.html (2353 words)

	CircleMUD List: [Decrepid Code Snippets] Classlessness! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		I recall quite a long while ago that there was a snippet written that detailed what it would take to remove classes completely from the game.
		I'm running a circlemud patch level 17 and after some discussion with a few of my immortals we decided being a "classless" mud would be more beneficial to the players as they would be able to shape and form their characters with much more freedom.
		If anyone knows where this documentation went or has a copy of it, or heck, wouldn't mind sending me a how-to, I'd definately put it to use.
	www.circlemud.org /maillist/2002-12/0200.html (227 words)

	AcademicDB - Do we live in a class society?
		If class is basically a hierarchy of inequalities this makes classlessness impossible.
		It is for this reason that I will outline the arguments not for classlessness or class but the state of class now, whether it is dying or strengthening.
		The argument for the death of class centres around the presumption that class has changed.
	www.academicdb.com /do_we_live_a_class_society_6953 (312 words)

	Classlessness - Definition up Erdmond.Com
		It is held that ''class consciousness'' is itself the only fact of class, and once people are liberated from hide-bound views of class they are by definition classless.
		Marxian economics claims that it will only be after the abolition of capitalism that true classlessnees will be possible.
		Contemporary evidence is that collapsed communist regimes have left behind a legacy of poverty that effectively introduces a new underclass of poor unemployed people who depend on investment from their classless neighbours.
	www.erdmond.com /Classlessness.html (495 words)

	What I like about this place--intended or not (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Classlessness: lack of classes help customize a character greatly, and : makes the mud more solo-able.
		Grouplessness: By not offering significant advantage when grouped (in the : earlier lvls) I can play erratically, and still not be much : behind those that play for prolonged periods of time per pop.
		: This lack of advantage is mostly due to classlessness and the : aim to make one character as self-sufficient as possible, : creating overlaps in abilities that go wasted.
	www.legendmud.org /Community/wwwboard/messages/44.html (755 words)

	Deep Ecology by Arne Naess
		There are deeper concerns which touch upon principles of diversity, complexity, autonomy, decentralization, symbiosis, egalitarianism, and classlessness.
		The three principles also favor extreme caution toward any overall plans for the future, except those consistent with wide and widening classless diversity.
		In this fight ecologists have found powerful supporters, but sometimes to the detriment of their total stand.
	www.mogensgallardo.com /deepeco/english/deep_ecology_arne.htm (1819 words)

	OhioLINK ETD: Gray, Lee
		These years, specifically those of the 1930s, represent a significant transitional point in American history regarding cultural identity and social class formation.
		This study seeks to present one profile of how the use of media contributed to a mythic cultural identity of the United States as both classless and middle-class simultaneously.
		The analysis is interdisciplinary by design and purports to highlight interaction between visual and oral rhetorical strategies used to construct and support the complex myths of class as they formed during this period in American history.
	rave.ohiolink.edu /etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1082661826 (276 words)

	ZNet Commentary: TINA!? And Getting There
		In a parecon there are new institutions that generate classlessness based on equity, solidarity, diversity, and self management.
		Old divisions of labor are gone, competitive allocation is gone, and so on.
		That best Leninist will say “I seek true classlessness, true participatory democracy, an end to patriarchy, and an end to racism including enriched cultural diversity.” The best anti-Leninist will say the same thing.
	www.zmag.org /sustainers/content/2004-01/30albert.cfm (1569 words)

	ARTANGEL PAST
		A one-off choral portrait of London on a massive scale, Because I Sing brought together voices raised from across the capital: an A-Z of urban choirs, sacred and secular, side-by-side in a theatrical tribute to the democracy and classlessness of singing.
		In preparation composer Orlando Gough and choreographer Alain Platel excavated London's hidden choirs with Artangel and invited 16 distinctive and diverse groups - over 500 voices in all - to feature in a promenade event performed over two nights.
		It develops and produce new projects with the same spirit of openness and collaboration that has always characterised Artangel's core commissions.
	www.artangel.org.uk /pages/past/01/01_platel.htm (365 words)

	D12 Ringtones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		America has gone a long way toward an appearance of classlessness.
		Today, the country has gone a long way toward an appearance of classlessness.
		Americans of all sorts are awash in luxuries that would have dazzled their grandparents.
	www.d12-ringtones.com /chicago-car-accident-lawyer.html (347 words)

	Baseball Musings: Comment on The Jeter Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Besides what's said about Jeter is pretty comparable to Yankees fans calling Ortiz a gorilla during the ALCS, which is horrific and indicative of the moral bankruptcy of most of the cretins who are Yankees fans, the most dispicable creatures on Earth.
		But I'm obnoxious and classless, so I guess I should end with something obnoxious and classless.
		Hell, for all you know, I could be the most classless idiot in all the world.
	www.baseballmusings.com /cgi-bin/mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=8425 (1032 words)

	The Consequences of Variable Intelligence - Book Review
		He emphasizes the significance of intellectual homogeneity in ethnically homogeneous nation-states and examines the ways to raise the level of general intelligence "g".
		In The Road to Equality: Evolution and Social Reality (1992), Itzkoff focuses on the failure of Marxists and liberal egalitarians to create an egalitarian and classless society and argues that their basic assumptions of human nature were wrong.
		From this perspective, he examines the hallucinations and misfortunes of our evil century, the methods to achieve classlessness and to end oppression and degradation, the ethic of intervention, the democratic quest, essential feminism, the mysterious ethnicity, and the significance of the wealthy.
	www.eugenics.net /papers/Itzkoff.html (4817 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| LRB essay
		TV programmes and books try to persuade us that we, whoever we are, can make over scrubby lawns, erect decking, build pergolas, plumb in water features, and construct a little Blenheim in a rectangle of twenty by thirty feet.
		Everyone knows this notion of classlessness is false, since nothing stimulates petty snobberies more immediately than a garden.
		If you have the wrong sort of paving, or if you put swathes of purple and orange together in the misguided belief that you are the new Gertrude Jekyll, you can be sure your friends will snigger about it on the way home.
	www.booksunlimited.co.uk /lrb (2456 words)

	Classlessness from LiveJournal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It's not just the blatant hypocrisy, the obsession with others' "classlessness" as the Weavers throw garbage at them on the highway, call a 16-year old boy a retard, make snide remarks about other womens' appearances ("I bet those cost a lot"), mock every location they...
		When asked later to apologize for his act of sheer stupidity and classlessness, he just shrugged his shoulders and said he wasnt going to apologize (MinnesotaNorthStar however apologized several times on his behalf).
		But despite the English tradition of resenting the rich and an adolescent anti-establishment bias that alienated them from anyone with power, these groups took class pretty...
	www.ljseek.com /search/Classlessness (642 words)

	Bottomore: Ch 3: Class, Classlessness & Socialism
		Marx's Expectation: Marx thought that after capitalism there would be a classless soceity urshered in by a working class revolt and marked by an absence of private productive property, the foundation of classes in capitalist societies.
		Soviet Union, which did not emerge out of modern capitalism, nevertheless saw itself as this kind of socialist, classless society.
		Equalitarianism: Soviet Union attacked 'equalitarianism' as 'petty bourgois', and drew a sharp distinction between classlessness and equalitarianism.
	socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca /soc/courses/soc2r3/botom03.htm (899 words)

	Pravda.RU John Fleming: The Nature of Class Conflict (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Despite the unequal distribution of the wealth, the United States supposedly offered equal opportunity for getting rich and freedom from the Old World pattern of class conflict, and in the Soviet Union the working class was said to be the only class.
		The masses of the world may more and more come to believe that they, and not a privileged class, are entitled to the fruits of their own labor.
		During the Cold War, the ideologies of the two superpowers were strangely co-incident in one respect-equality and classlessness.
	english.pravda.ru /world/2001/08/15/12580.html (3340 words)

	Chapter 3: 91,92,93
		That a stage of classlessness existed is demonstrable by logic if not by color film.
		Before paternity was known, or before children attached sentiment to either parent as such, there were no social classes, no inherited privilege, no family lines.
		What one learns from these examples is that society must be very undifferentiated indeed for social classlessness to be the rule; or, conversely, even slight complexity leads to the establishment of social class rigidity of some kind.
	www.abbeyclock.com /cecil/36.html (669 words)

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