LOL WUTSelf-proclaimed “communists” on Twitter claim small business owners “are not part of the working class”

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[–]IMissPorn 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Yep. "Bourgeois" means middle class and always has. That's who they hate, not the elites.

I really don't get it, but one can hardly expect a failed ideology to make sense.

[–]LyingSpirit472 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Capitalism is espoused by poor members of the proletariat who truly believe they are temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

Communism is espoused by well-off enough members of the petit bourgoisie who truly believe they are temporarily embarrassed members of the ruling class.

[–]xoenix 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Just remember that "capitalist" is a slur invented by communists which to them means monopolist or oligarch.

[–]weavilsatemyface 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It really wasn't.

Here is a right-wing author (hates Keynes, doesn't understand Adam Smith, loves Ayn Rand) explaining the origins of the word capitalist.

People were using the words “capital” and “capitalistic” centuries before communism existed. It originally derived from the word “caput”, Latin for “head”, as in head of cattle. (This is why we use the same word for the main city of a state, where the head of state rules.) The word "capitalist" itself was first used by the French judge Étienne Clavier in 1788, thirty years before Karl Marx was even a twinkle in his dad's eye.

Marx himself almost never used the word "capitalist". The idea that "capitalist" was invented by communists as a slur, or that it means either monopolist or oligarch, is even more wrong than the idea that a man can turn into a woman by putting on a dress and lipstick.

Sometimes I think that the only people more stupid than communists are anti-communists 😢 At least communists understand capitalism.