Anonymous #2 9w

A doctor who starts their own practice would be petty bourgeois. They own the means and often buy labor, but they still work for their wage along with their employees. This class sinks into the proletariat, even as its members often try (and fail) to emulate the upper bourgeoisie. In sum, those in this class who realize their role in the class struggle (on the side of the proletariat) are also our allies in my view

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Anonymous OP 9w

This also applies to artisans and small business owners and the like

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Anonymous OP 9w

Holy shit you are wayyyyyy too far gone. It doesn’t work man. It never has worked.

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Anonymous #4 9w

100% agree

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Anonymous #2 9w

I resent the implication that reading the theory makes me “too far gone”. Even people who are expressly anti-communist read communist theory. As an example of this, take the economist Roger Adolf Freeman, who served as an advisor to Reagan during his governorship of California. When advising Reagan to cut state-sponsored tuition, he said “we are in danger of producing an educated proletariat”. Soon after, the avenues to free college in California were severely restricted.

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Anonymous OP 9w

My question is this: why should it be that the only people who understand class dynamics are the ones working against us?

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Anonymous OP 9w

I am pretty anti-communist, but reading Marx to some extent is required for a bunch of different social sciences

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Anonymous #4 9w

That sounds about right yea

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