ANNALS OF OIKOPHOBIA, as spotted by David Thompson: When The Lady On The Checkout Is Your Class Enemy.

Are cashiers working class? I know this sounds like it should be obvious, but think about it. Cashiers do not produce any commodities. Under a non-capitalistic society, nobody would do what they do. In fact, their job is almost more like a cop. They keep commodities away from people and demand that you pay a fee to the bourgeois to access them. And if you refuse, they will use the violence of the state against you by reporting you to the authorities for shoplifting. So how are they, in a Marxist analysis, working class?

Yes, it’s real, or was, until deleted for attracting attention from unclean heathens. And needless to say, earnest rumblings ensued. You do, I think, have to marvel at the thought of someone going through life continually scanning for class enemies, obstructers of the Great Proletarian Revolution, and concluding that checkout assistants have just made the list.

Curious how the people who imagine the Next Great Socialist Revolution always think of themselves as being on the side who gets to pick who goes to the gulag, instead of assuming they’ll end up there as well eventually.

Meanwhile, at America’s Newspaper of Record: Old, Failed Idea Repackaged As New, Progressive Idea. Great photo juxtaposition of Stalin, and Goya’s Employee of the Month, who likely views Stalin as a wild-eyed free market libertarian Reason subscriber: