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  • anarchoilluminati [comrade/them]
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    11 days ago

    From my experience talking to my lib but left-sympathetic friends, it seems like people misidentify the middle class with the working class because they literally "work".

    I think they see the "lower class" as critically poor, jobless, homeless people and so on.

    What no theory does to a motherfucker, and so on.

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      11 days ago

      tbf the "upper," "middle," and "lower class" naming convention is maybe-deliberately obfuscatory. Much better to describe things in terms of relation to production.

    • Runcible [none/use name]
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      11 days ago

      , it seems like people misidentify the middle class with the working class because they literally "work".

      As I understand it "working class" encompasses anyone whose income comes from working regardless of how well off they are, as distinct from people whose income comes from owning shit (stocks or other rent seeking). Am I off base here?

      • Z_Poster365 [none/use name]
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        11 days ago

        In the Marxist sense, yes that’s what proletarian means.

        In the Liberal sense, working class and middle class are two separate and distinct classes. One is poor and the other is financially comfortable.

      • ComradeMonotreme [she/her, he/him]
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        11 days ago

        Kind of yeah. It's why marxists use more specific terms like proletariat, peasant, petit bourgeois, labor aristocrat, comprador, PMC etc to convey extra nuance.

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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        11 days ago

        When a Marxist is trying to avoid saying "proletariat", that is the definition they will use, but that is absolutely not the common American definition.