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The complexities of the class structure have shifted somehwat since the time of Marx and Lenin. Presently within the working class, there exists an ultra-right section at the bottom of this structure which feels all of its demands on life can be met by the existing order. In fact, the working class of U.S.A. 1971 can be realitically divided into two mutually exclusive and conflicting sections, one right-oriented and conservative, the other left to neutral. One explanation for this phenomenon is the loss over the years (to fascist nationalistic propaganda and state-controlled unions) of clear-cut class consciousness. In effect, it can be said that this right-oriented sector of the working class is a new class, a new pig class. In their ranks we find a factory or construction worker, the ubiqitous civil service employee, the retired military career man, the man who sells used autos or insurance, the store clerk or longshoreman about to be replaced by a machine.