Timeline for How would a Marxist classify an entrepreneur that starts their own company?
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| May 6, 2013 at 20:38 | comment | added | user4012 | Sorry, this answer is extremely confusing and unclear. I will post a follow up question with specific case studies to illustrate why this is too generic to be of clear usefulness as a definition without further details (too long for comment) | |
| May 6, 2013 at 11:56 | comment | added | Samuel Russell | The question of Poulantzas's concepts of a new-petits bourgeois versus so-called immaterial labour in the social factory is an independent question. It normally isn't treated as "means of production" or "capital." It is normally treated as a form of labour-power exertion. | |
| May 6, 2013 at 10:51 | comment | added | user1873 | @Anixx, would this apply to the mental means as well? Is the ability to program games for Atari is within the mind of David Crane, so when he worked for Atari for $20k he owned the means of production, and when he left and formed Activision he still owned the means of production? Is there anyway to classify members of the working class that require expert knowledge in producing something? | |
| May 6, 2013 at 1:10 | comment | added | Anixx | @user1873 here by "capital" is meant means of production rather than some investment money. Since David Cane worked on his own means of production, we say that he owned the capital (even if it was only his garage and tools, lol). | |
| May 6, 2013 at 1:07 | comment | added | Anixx | @Major Byte those who do not hire labor but own means of production and work themselves also belong to (a sort of) bourgeoisie. | |
| May 4, 2013 at 23:13 | comment | added | Major Byte |
Like @SamualRussell said: for the Marxist, the relationship around is the ownership of capital and wage labour. If you can hire someone to do your dirty work your Bourgeoisie.....
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| May 4, 2013 at 21:51 | comment | added | Major Byte | That depends how he spends it. If he would hire an Indian programmer to program his Atari and take $5000 in the process he would be bourgeousie. If he would put in his own effort for the full $20,000 he would be part of the industrial working class..... | |
| May 4, 2013 at 13:10 | comment | added | user1873 | So, it is their access to capital that make them bourgeoisie? What if David Crane was unable to find venture capital, and continued working at Atari for $20,000 per year? (would that make him dependent upon his labor for income and part of the working class?) | |
| May 4, 2013 at 7:58 | history | edited | Samuel Russell | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 4, 2013 at 6:50 | history | answered | Samuel Russell | CC BY-SA 3.0 |