Email All Your Gingers To This Webzone on Nostr: A Marxist just explained their metrics to me on an imageboard: >What people don't ...
A Marxist just explained their metrics to me on an imageboard:
>What people don't understand is that "working class" does not mean people who dig ditches or weld for a living. It literally means people who have to go to work.
>Because to your average unenlightened lumpenprole, it is beyond their comprehension that society is ruled by the bourgeois, those who do not have to work for a living and can live solely off of rents, investments, royalties, rights, etc
>You might think of someone like Taylor Swift as being rich, but society is ruled by people who do not have to get up on a stage shaking their ass. The reality is, if you cannot quit your job tomorrow and say you aren't gonna work for 7 years, you are working class.
>It's not about having to work, it's about ownership of the means of production and selling your labour. A skilled employee may be bringing in well into the 6 figures, and have a minor in the bank. But as he sells his labour to his employer he is working class.
>While a taxi driver may barely make enough to get by but owns his own means of production, his taxi, and therefore works for himself. He is bourgeoisie. But since he is forced to work to survive and has no economic power he is petite bourgeoisie, still at the mercy of economic conditions controlled by the bourgeoisie, so his economic interests align more closely with the working class than the true bourgeoisie.
It's a level of pilpul I didn't think was entirely possible.
>What people don't understand is that "working class" does not mean people who dig ditches or weld for a living. It literally means people who have to go to work.
>Because to your average unenlightened lumpenprole, it is beyond their comprehension that society is ruled by the bourgeois, those who do not have to work for a living and can live solely off of rents, investments, royalties, rights, etc
>You might think of someone like Taylor Swift as being rich, but society is ruled by people who do not have to get up on a stage shaking their ass. The reality is, if you cannot quit your job tomorrow and say you aren't gonna work for 7 years, you are working class.
>It's not about having to work, it's about ownership of the means of production and selling your labour. A skilled employee may be bringing in well into the 6 figures, and have a minor in the bank. But as he sells his labour to his employer he is working class.
>While a taxi driver may barely make enough to get by but owns his own means of production, his taxi, and therefore works for himself. He is bourgeoisie. But since he is forced to work to survive and has no economic power he is petite bourgeoisie, still at the mercy of economic conditions controlled by the bourgeoisie, so his economic interests align more closely with the working class than the true bourgeoisie.
It's a level of pilpul I didn't think was entirely possible.