David Brooks on class struggle. Am I in Bizarro World?

[Don Claybrook]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/29/opinion/29brooks.html?hp

This doesn't look like any David Brooks column I've ever read. I mean, he actually admits that Karl Marx had some good ideas. He needs to be careful or he'll be kicked out of the neocon club.

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The educated class reaps the benefits of the modern economy - seizing for itself most of the income gains of the past decades - and then ruthlessly exploits its position to ensure the continued dominance of its class.
(snip)
Undereducated workers of the world, unite! Let the ruling educated class tremble! You have nothing to lose but your chains. You have a world to win!

[Maple]

1. Don't see this as a 'good' idea

Let the ruling educated class tremble!

A better idea would be an educated ruling class.

[Don Claybrook]

2. Point taken. But to see a neoconservative talk like a populist

Well, I don't trust Brooks. I'm sure he'll be back to his old ways by the time the next column rolls around. Maybe he just had a phantom pain from the remnants of the soul he may have once posessed.

[EFerrari]

3. Cuts both way ways.

He's peddling the "with a college degree you can be president" cR@p.

[necso]

4. Actually, the dynamic

is that the (relatively) powerful and unscrupulous exploit anyone (anything or any circumstance) that they are able to.

A corollary is that the unscrupulous seek the power (or more power) to exploit (further).

However, I must confess that I read only the excerpts... But really, why bother?