My parents knew that. Even though their education level did not allow them to succinctly express their philosophy, their actions spoke volumes. Often, throughout my twenty-seven year teaching career I've felt more in common with the support staff than with the professionals. Professionals have a tendency to consider themselves somehow a cut above the working class. That too, however, is an artificial construct in need of getting beyond.
Professionals are labor.
Their solidarity is a working class solidarity and as such they, the professionals, should welcome the solidarity of the working class and help lend a hand. After all, the too, are pawns in the same corporate takeover of everything. There is a unique possibility taking form in the United States today. Two years ago, in 1996, at the Labor party founding convention, delegates decided not to run political candidates. While this is still the case, the upcoming Labor Party convention will revisit the issue.