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homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 day agoMmm hmmm. Yeah. Yes.
So an American proletariat is . . . Anyone who is limited by health insurance, student loans, and mortgage rates? Or is it something else?
We don’t really use the word proletariat, uh, at all. Ever.
SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
In a very basic sense (and this may very well be debated but to explain it simply I’ll say): anyone who doesn’t own their own labour, as in you work for someone else.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s pretty much every liberal I know, yeah.
Well. I know some house painters I guess. They don’t work for someone else, per se.
SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Yeah being part of smth and identifying as smth are two separate things.
I’m a man, straight, brown, proletariat etc. The question is what part of that do I see as the most fundamental part of my identity or politics.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Hm. Well, that’s interesting.