https://twitter.com/lysenko_weed/status/1545160259878232065
Reminder that farmers in western/imperial core countries are rich land owners who owns all the machinery and relies on exploiting migrant labors; also known as kulaks. And the protest itself are mostly driven by environmentally destructive livestock farmers.
Meanwhile the truckers are bourgeois as they owns their means of production (truck) and they're protesting on the behalf of corporate interest fighting against unprofitable Covid measures.
edit: alright, the truck part is a very terrible take and that's on me
Also fuck you if you think service workers are not working class.
Dude, this one's gotta go back to the drawing board. The vast majority of truckers are completely dependent on logistics companies for all their work. They own the means of production in the same way an Uber driver does.
Yeah. They're more like tradesmen who own their own tools. In a very, very technical sense you could say they own the means of production, if you squint. But that's not really their role in the economy.
"Do you depend on others' capital/resources to produce things?" "Do others depend on your capital/resources to produce things?"
If the answer to the first question is no (i.e. you're vertically integrated) or the second question is yes, then you have some control over means of production.
A carpenter is needed for their labor, not their saw. But the carpenter needs wood, not labor, from whoever owns the lumber. Thus, the carpenter is proletariat and the lumber yard owner is bourgeoisie.
@flirty_fawn I think this also gets at the distinction between a truck and fleet. Truck companies need drivers' labor, not their singular, individual trucks. But the driver absolutely needs a truck, which they must purchase or lease from the bourgeoisie who own fleets.
Also many has to take out bug loans that the majority of their pay goes to paying back for a while.