According to "Book News", "Kalra commits the American heresy -- he not only identifies the structure of the class system, but he goes on to show how it controls income, taxes, savings, subsidies for education, healthcare, and the "American" way of life. Thoroughly researched and clearly written for a wide audience."
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Paul Kalra's book ought to be viewed in this perspective. He focuses on the other face of the USA, marked by scars of inequality and injustice characteristic of a class-divided society. But, unlike the Soviet scholars, he has no ideological obsession and proves his point with the aid of empirical details. As a critique of the American system, the book has considerable credibility. Although it may offend American pride, people of the Third World who are usually over-whelmed by the American halo, will be convinced.
Kalra is no believer in Marxist theory: "Karl Marx is not necessary to understand the laws, operation or the existence of the American class system" (page 5). He does not view classes in the context of production relations. Principal classes or for that matter the contradictions among them are not the subject of his inquiry. His yardstick is the pattern of wealth distribution, on which data are not available in the USA. Kalra regards this omission as part of a strategy to conceal grim realities. Undaunted by this constraint, he finds two wealth surveys by the Federal Reserve Board in 1962 and 1983, which help him establish his thesis that the American society is a class society marked by a highly uneven distribution of wealth and consequent maladies. -- The Other Face Of America, by Amal Kumar Mukhopadhyay Exclusive to The Statesman
Class in the United States is a taboo subject. We each like to think we are as good as the next man. We try our best to keep up with the Joneses. And in our Declaration of Independence, the Founders declare that it is self-evident that all men are created equal.
Paul Kalra, author of The American Class System: Divide and Rule, offers this definition of the American classes, based on what he feels is the most meaningful criterion, wealth:
The top 10 percent of households comprise the upper class. Then come the next 40 percent of households, comprising the middle class. The next 40 percent are the working class, while the bottom 10 percent are the under class. -- America's Plutocratic Rulers, By John Tiffany, Exclusive to the Spotlight
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