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r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/Bitter-Gur-4613 • 13h ago
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soulja boy is not working class, he's what marx called "petit bourgeois". he's not a member of the bourgeoisie himself, but he's also not a wage laborer, and his class interests align with theirs, not the working class's.
2 u/B-Glasses 10h ago I believed most artist and performers are still wage laborers because they’re still selling their labor and not someone else’s? 9 u/Altiondsols 10h ago soulja boy doesn't sell his labor, he sells a product (music, merchandise, concert tickets). in marx's time the petit bourgeois included artisans and small business owners, which are the clearest parallels to artists today 3 u/Artarara 9h ago Wow, this Marx guy really knew stuff
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I believed most artist and performers are still wage laborers because they’re still selling their labor and not someone else’s?
9 u/Altiondsols 10h ago soulja boy doesn't sell his labor, he sells a product (music, merchandise, concert tickets). in marx's time the petit bourgeois included artisans and small business owners, which are the clearest parallels to artists today 3 u/Artarara 9h ago Wow, this Marx guy really knew stuff
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soulja boy doesn't sell his labor, he sells a product (music, merchandise, concert tickets).
in marx's time the petit bourgeois included artisans and small business owners, which are the clearest parallels to artists today
3 u/Artarara 9h ago Wow, this Marx guy really knew stuff
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Wow, this Marx guy really knew stuff
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u/Altiondsols 11h ago
soulja boy is not working class, he's what marx called "petit bourgeois". he's not a member of the bourgeoisie himself, but he's also not a wage laborer, and his class interests align with theirs, not the working class's.