| The man that invented the concept of classes to divide society in order to make them fight against each other was Marx. He created the concept of "class struggle" along the classes himself. There was a very important reason for that. Early socialist leaders were usually selected among the best in any trade. The carpenters chose the best and most successful carpenter to represent them, and so on with most professions. That was simply unacceptable for "intellectuals" like Marx or Lenin or Trotsky that never touched a tool or worked physically on their entire lives, something they were all the time being reminded by actual workers(something Lenin hated so much). The new Frame made them the bosses on the new system. Like Natzis could decide who was arian or jew, even if they had dark hair or jew parents, the marxist could decide who was working class and who did not. The children of rich jew merchants that were most marxist revolutionaries could became working class if they said so. There are lots of people that do not accept the Marxist frame at all because they are not marxist. >if you or someone in your family has to work so that you can survive, you are working class. As someone who has lived in Africa , Asia, South America and Europe, I tell you that 90% of people in the US don't need work to survive. Unless by "survive" you mean things like buying a pickup truck. There are kids in Africa in which "survive" means eating once a day and their minds being confused after two hours of work like learning to read. |
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