• cracksmoke2020 [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    So middle class absolutely exists within this framework. A middle class person is both a part of the ownership class, but is still working themselves for a living.

    Petite bourgeois are often middle class, as say if you own your own restaurant, you're still under the boot of much larger landlords, product suppliers and so on. Professional workers are middle class as they earn enough in income to also be able to make investments and generate income from that in a way a more precariate working class person cannot.

    • OhWell [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      The petty bourgeois are the middle class, and they are the ones who voted for Trump. All those small business owners that both political parties love to cater too. Those are the "moderate Republicans" that libs obsess over.

      Biden is not even hiding his contempt for the poor here. He is literally acting as a call back to the old GOP of the 2000s, who frame everything being about the "middle class" as a way to say fuck you to the poor.

      This presidency is going to be an outright nightmare of class war. We're in a recession and Biden will enter office with the worst economy and highest unemployment numbers since the great depression and stuff like this, is just admitting he's ready to pass austerity budgets. We're almost to the point now where naked class warfare is all that is left as liberalism is failing and becoming more and more useless in the eyes of the majority. I give it 2, maybe 3 years, and we'll have a fascist movement from the right that is far more radical than anything Trump could've ever done, and it will be a direct response to Biden's admin doing nothing about wealth inequality.