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.

[–] Runcible@hexbear.net 17 points 3 days ago (4 children)

, 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?

[–] ComradeMonotreme@hexbear.net 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 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.

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