Political Memes

Michael would be aware for everyone, but he would get it wrong constantly

Moreover, I think he'd be a pawn for a pseudo-communist, totalitarian regime. Draped in party-supplied luxuries, he'd still imagine himself a member of the proletariat and a champion for its cause. That's my take on a Stalinist version of the office anyway.

The petty bourgeois, which encompasses coop workers, self-employed artisans, small business owners that put in many hours but also pay wages to workers, lawyers with partner status, etc. are a middle class. They own their means of production to a large extent but also put in labour.

During times of crisis they align with one of the big classes or the other largely depending on which of those subgroups they belong (the shopkeep will generally align with the factory owner, the coop worker and the artisan usually align with the factory worker). Those that align with capital often end up becoming fascists.

Yes there is ... middle class are the people that believe there is a middle class, without knowing that they are actually working class

"There's no such thing as a rectangle, you're either a parallelogram or you're not a parallelogram."

The idea of a middle class has absolutely nothing to do with socialism analysis of class relations; it's simply a measure of quality of life.

There is, but it isn't the liberal middle class that's some arbitrary amount of money you earn as a salary, but petty bourgeois or in other words small business owners.

They're in an unique position where they both own a business and live off of that income but are also forced to work in these businesses alongside their employees due to them not being wealthy enough to fully offload everything about it to the working class.

I'm a mercenary, thank you.

This post is not making fun of workers. Too often we see workers identify with rich capitalists and see their own lack of capital as a personal failing. But once we recognize the difference between the two classes we can dispel ourselves of that notion.

Members of the working class sell their labor in order to gain money and buy the necessities of life. The ruling class buys labor in order to see a profit on the money they already have. Since capitalism compels the capitalist to make a profit, they must pay the worker a fraction of the value that the worker creates. (The business owner wants to stay in business and the shareholders demand every-increasing value.) Hence we should not consider ourselves capitalists: we are workers who are being exploited, as necessitated by the system.

People thinking they're capitalists.