No. Owning a business (as in, means of production) makes you a different class — bourgeois — not a class traitor. Belonging to a different class naturally changes what benefits you.
i think this ignores the material demographic reality that whereas when that quote was said most of the world was the proletariat, now most of the world is middle class (at least, the world that Lemmy users live in)
Business owners are (generally) not your allies in the class war, no matter how small or large their business is.
So running a craft studio and selling your art direct to people in your area makes you a class traitor now?
Man, I’m having trouble keeping up with who we’re supposed to hate guys.
No. Owning a business (as in, means of production) makes you a different class — bourgeois — not a class traitor. Belonging to a different class naturally changes what benefits you.
You hit a false dichotomy. “Not your allies” does not automatically mean “class traitors”. They might be neutral.
i think this ignores the material demographic reality that whereas when that quote was said most of the world was the proletariat, now most of the world is middle class (at least, the world that Lemmy users live in)
Best to just give it all to the same billionaire, then.