What Marxist class are you?

[Rand /pol/]

According to Marxism there are like 4 or 5 economic classes:

Bourgeoisie - wealthy capitalists, run a large business with a large number of employees, a millionaire/billionaire.

Petite Bourgeoisie - small business owners with a small number of employees, "upper middle class".

Labor aristocracy - doesn't have any employees and is probably a wage/salary worker but still makes a fair sum of money, think stock brokers or high end lawyers.

Proletariat - the basic wage workers, like McDonald's fry cooks and garment makers.

Lumpenproletariat - people who are unemployed by choice and live off some sort of welfare or who work in an illicit trade, can be NEETs, drug addicts, criminals, prostitutes, etc.

So which are you? I'm a proud lumpenproletariat.

 

[Shield Breaker]

Druid or Cleric depending upon the game.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

There has to be a class between stock brokers/lawyers and a minimum wage worker.

 

[Rand /pol/]

There has to be a class between stock brokers/lawyers and a minimum wage worker.

If you're a trade worker like a plumber you're still a proletariat, if you make big $$$ from being a plumber you could be considered labor aristocracy.

 

[wokelizard]

I'm a sort of rich Lumpenproletariat, I've saved enough money to live the rest of my life without having to work again so I'm unemployed and very happily unproductive and lazy. Sort of like what having a basic income would be like. It's pretty nice, like being retired but not too old to do anything. I'm going to Costa Rica once coronachan dies down to look for somewhere nice to live, property is very cheap there and they don't have a braindead government. I identify very much with socialism and would love everyone to be able to experience this, which if the corporations and 1% shared out their wealth equally would be possible. I'll probably open a juice bar on a beach where Americans go on vacation and sell them $5 smoothies and home grown weed on the side.

 

[Wheezy Asthmatic]

Are you still considered a Lumpenproletariat if you're going through post-high school education for a certification / degree if that's the ONLY thing you're doing?

 

[Syaoran Li]

13th Generation Malkavian

On a more serious note, either proletariat or lumpenproletariat depending on the time of year.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

Proletariat.

 

[Lonely Grave]

Right now on firmly in the proletariat, endgoal is upper proletariat if not labour aristocracy.

 

[ElAbominacion]

P r o l e t a r i a t


GIVE ME MY GUNS, COMMIES! Marx wills it.

 

[JambledUpWords]

Labor aristocracy. Though, living below your means helps as far as having extra spending money and savings.

Truthfully though, Marx lived in the 19th century and 19th century standards of living and working are much different than today. Also, to the average Lenin LARPer, having a job that pays $10 above minimum wage is probably considered petite bourgeoisie (considering many communists are NEETs like Marx himself was).

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Marxist classes are pretty useless for describing a modern economy, or for that matter, any economy (where’s the category of service worker. My family, including me, is closer to labor aristocracy than anything else, but that covers a variety of extremely different jobs and incomes.

more practically, I prefer to think of the middle class as a whole as being equivalent to the petite-bourgeoisie. My father was upper middle class or middle middle class. My mother lower middle class. I’ll be in the intelligentsia with, most likely, an upper middle class income.

 

[nekrataal]

I’ll be a marxist paladin so I can be a tankie.

 

[Kosher Dill]

I'm nothing under our current capitalist system, but when the revolution comes they'll recognize my talent and elevate me to the high station I deserve, I just know it.

 

[Richard Harrow]

I suppose Petite Bourgeoisie, but the only employees are myself and my wife and I'm more than sure "upper middle class" is a dubious label at best to describe my earnings. The Marxist economic classifications are a bit outdated and trite at this point due to technological advances and a heftier global market. There's a lot not taken into account. Just one example: As a business owner, money earned does not necessarily equal money-in-pocket, which based on Marxist categorization, depends more on occupation versus profit. If a thief sells a stolen painting for a million dollars, is he still a Lumpenproletariat?

 

[afternoon_tea]

Petite bourgeoisie

 

[ConfederateIrishman]

Damn, Labor aristocrat is a way cooler title than my actual job.

 

[Lemmingwise]

I prefer to multiclass into nigerian prince // criminal lumpy prole

I don't just multiclass my economic class. I do the same with race and gender (demiqueer).

 

[knobslobbin]

I'm a sort of rich Lumpenproletariat, I've saved enough money to live the rest of my life without having to work again so I'm unemployed and very happily unproductive and lazy. Sort of like what having a basic income would be like. It's pretty nice, like being retired but not too old to do anything. I'm going to Costa Rica once coronachan dies down to look for somewhere nice to live, property is very cheap there and they don't have a braindead government. I identify very much with socialism and would love everyone to be able to experience this, which if the corporations and 1% shared out their wealth equally would be possible. I'll probably open a juice bar on a beach where Americans go on vacation and sell them $5 smoothies and home grown weed on the side.

Me too, hit me up if you ever want a travel buddy.

 

[Lemmingwise]

Ps what class are prof athletes or game streamers? Does their class change if they make 25K or 250K per year?