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.
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?
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.
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?