Rajapaksa-War On Middle Classes
| by Tisaranee Gunasekara
“You can’t eat the orange and throw the peel away – a man is not a piece of fruit”.
Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman)
( December 22, 2013, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Social mobility is a capitalist thing. During the much eulogised feudal past, men and women were prisoners of the geographical and social loci they were born into. Capitalism liberated them from that servitude, even though the break happened as a brutal wrench which created its own particular miseries and discontents.
