• balsoft@lemmy.ml
    9·
    29 minutes ago

    Business owners are (generally) not your allies in the class war, no matter how small or large their business is.

    • testfactor@lemmy.world
      8·
      17 minutes ago

      So running a craft studio and selling your art direct to people in your area makes you a class traitor now?

      Man, I’m having trouble keeping up with who we’re supposed to hate guys.

      • 8ball@slrpnk.net
        2·
        6 minutes ago

        You can judge it pretty succinctly: if they are controlling a resource that others depend on in order to live (such as deriving a wage), then they are the bourgeoisie. What you’re referring to is closer to lumpenproletariat — someone who works for themselves

        • testfactor@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 minutes ago

          Okay, so if they employ someone part time to help with the bookkeeping, then I’m supposed to hate them, but not before? Just trying to understand.

      • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
        3·
        15 minutes ago

        Best to not spend any money on anything at all if you can possibly avoid it.

        Best protest you can make is to limit your participation in the economy as much as possible. They want your money. Don’t give it to them.

    • Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      6 minutes ago

      i think this ignores the material demographic reality that whereas when that quote was said most of the world was the proletariat, now most of the world is middle class (at least, the world that Lemmy users live in)