"there are now 7 classes, every time a marxist complains we will add another class"

  • apparitionist [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    non-bourgeois classes such as artisans

    lol you mean the people who first created the middle class hundreds of years ago? Arguably the guild system's corruption was only matched by our modern corporate system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guild#Economic_consequences

    • JohnBrownsBussy [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      The artisan class still exists, but in a marginal fashion. Either as holdovers from feudal institutions or in the ferment of emerging industries. Again, proletarianization continues to dissolve that class, but it's a still ongoing process. The idea of a purely two-class society, with one class that does all the labor and another that does all the owning, is the horizon of capitalist development, not its current state.

      • Kereru [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Is the artisan class still considered relevant in the west? It seems to me like anyone that you might say fits into this is actually prole or petit-bourg. I guess musicians who release independently? It doesn't seem like the list is that big though?