class

[Fawkes]

given this recent trend of personal polls, let's see just how full of shit revleft is ;)

[Hivemind]

The petitest of the petit-bourgeosie. :p

[Apoi_Viitor]

student

[not your usual suspect]

I'm part of the 1% ... :cool:

[Tablo]

I own a factory. Get back to work proles!

[Die Rote Fahne]

I'm a member of the nobility.

[Azraella]

I'm complex. I think I should technically be a prole, but I'm self-employed and I work at a school... so I'm not sure...

[xub3rn00dlex]

Royalty motherfucka! Kiss the ring. As you were peasants. :cool:

[A Revolutionary Tool]

More prole than any of you :cool:

[thriller]

I want to get prole tattooed on my neck :D

[∞]

Petite-Bourgeois. My moms a doctor and my dad a CPA. But I've seen exploitation, and what HC companies do to doctors and their patients is nothing short of it

[hatzel]

And why exactly isn't lumpen an option?

[Искра]

Grandson of a guy who shaked hands with Mao Zedong.

So, I'm a "honest inteligentsia". It's class invented in Yugoslavia.

[Le Rouge]

I want to get prole tattooed on my neck :D

I don't want to have this kind of tattoo on me. What would you do if suddenly, a communist revolution occured? You wouldn't be a prole no more. :crying:

[xub3rn00dlex]

I don't want to have this kind of tattoo on me. What would you do if suddenly, a communist revolution occured? You wouldn't be a prole no more. :crying:

Or if he became bourgeoisie... :laugh:

[tfb]

XXL-bourgeois

[MustCrushCapitalism]

I'm Bill Gates in disguise, here to spy on you proles and ensure that no revolution ousts me from power. :p

[∞]

Bill Gates is actually a really cool guy. If capitalism was run by people like Bill Gates I wouldn't nearly be as socialist as I am now. Hell, I might not even be one.

Not all capitalists are bad, but almost all of them are.

[Koba1917]

Dishwasher :D

[thefinalmarch]

Patrician


Actually, having no relation to the means of production, I have no class -- and I am sure of this (so I can't answer with "I'm not really sure"). It's pretty simple and I don't see why there isn't an option for that.

[tfb]

Bill Gates is actually a really cool guy. If capitalism was run by people like Bill Gates I wouldn't nearly be as socialist as I am now. Hell, I might not even be one.

Not all capitalists are bad, but almost all of them are.

A great philanthropist in the mould of Rockefeller and Carnegie! Forget everything else he's done! :lol:

[eyeheartlenin]

Except for getting a degree on the GI Bill, I worked my whole adult life and then retired, so I am a prole (and proud of it).

The late Peter Camejo, a leader of the (US) SWP/YSA, until he was inexplicably expelled, explained how you could know if you're bourgeois. As I remember (and it's been decades since): Stay inside for a month, and if you get checks in the mail, so you don't have to work, then you are indeed bourgeois. (Or you might be a student with generous parents.)

[∞]

Nah. Bill Gates didn't monopolize industry via horizontal integration and hes just playing by the current rules. I give him much respect because hes a visionary and has done more good than bad.

[OHumanista]

Again prole, middle class if you income is taken into account, but income ins't class, also strongly leftist family.

[Ocean Seal]

Bill Gates is actually a really cool guy. If capitalism was run by people like Bill Gates I wouldn't nearly be as socialist as I am now. Hell, I might not even be one.

Not all capitalists are bad, but almost all of them are.
Being against capitalism has never been about the individual capitalists but about the institutional capacity of the capitalist class. And that is necessarily to oppress.

[Iraultzaile Ezkerreko]

I work.

[∞]

Being against capitalism has never been about the individual capitalists but about the institutional capacity of the capitalist class. And that is necessarily to oppress.

I understand. Bill Gates is just an angel compared to the other 90% scumbag capitalists.

[xub3rn00dlex]

I understand. Bill Gates is just an angel compared to the other 90% scumbag capitalists.

I work for that 90% scumbag capitalists. Never even bought me fucking coffee.

[thriller]

Or if he became bourgeoisie... :laugh:

That has occurred to me. Kind of why I don't have it :P

[Fawkes]

And why exactly isn't lumpen an option?

Cause I think it's a largely bullshit and arrogant classification. The only people I can think of that may qualify as lumpens are professional thieves and scammers, and if anyone on here is either of those two then they can fuck off.

Prostitutes = proletariat (or maybe petit-bourgeois in rare cases)
Beggars/homeless people = proletariat
Small time drug dealers = petit-bourgeois
Drug lords and pimps = bourgeois

[Rusty Shackleford]

I am tied to the land and serve the land lord. He routinely presses us into his military to fight wars to get more people like me under his control.


at least i get to serf the web.

[GatesofLenin]

College drop-out, self-employed freelancer in the technology field. :cool:

[hatzel]

I have no class

Well there's always a solution (http://www.wikihow.com/Be-a-Classy-Guy)...

[/top quality comedy]

[thefinalmarch]

[/top quality comedy]
oh, you

That's not even trying.

[W1N5T0N]

im so bourgeois, you wouldn't believe.
But sorry, gotta go and take my bentley out for a ride on my private piece of land, which i bought with illegit money extracted from the working class in the form of surplus value.

toodels!

[black magick hustla]

hooligan/bakuninist/lumpen vermin

[Leonid Brozhnev]

Mightly lord and creator of the vast cosmic blackness you specs of dust inhabit... but on my off days I guess you could say I'm working class.

[00000000000]

Fucked if I know, socially middle-class (posh voice, read the Guardian, think too much, scared of chav kids) but I own nothing and work in menial jobs that never top 16K a year.

Prole with a posh accent?

[Quail]

I don't actually know what my parents do, but I had quite a nice upbringing, so I think I was brought up in a comfortable working class home.

I live on my own now though, and I'm a student single parent benefit scrounger.

[Rooster]

Lumpen-prole in production, lumpen-bourgeois in consumption.

[farleft]

In the Marxist sense or the more contemporary sense of class definitions?

[Rusty Shackleford]

I hope to someday become working class by pulling myself up by my boot-straps and getting some capital and working real hard to get other people in my employ.

[Nox]

I'm Bill Gates

[ColonelCossack]

I'm na member of primitive tribal society, innit.

[tir1944]

Are there people here who'd refuse to take over a (profitable) factory your distant relative left to you in his Will?
:D

[tachosomoza]

There's no "lumpen" option.

[El Louton]

Crap, wrong button!

[Nox]

I'm na member of primitive tribal society, innit.

Also known as East London

[Nox]

Are there people here who'd refuse to take over a (profitable) factory your distant relative left to you in his Will?
:D

Communism isn't a lifestyle ^^

[Tenka]

Working class; unemployed, never been employed, never going to be employed.

[Le Rouge]

never going to be employed.

Oh really?

[PC LOAD LETTER]

Working class. Grew up in a poorer neighborhood with gangs, shootings, and crack abound.

Eh. Whatever.

[Fawkes]

Working class. Grew up in a poorer neighborhood with gangs, shootings, and crack abound.


But you're an anarchist....

[PC LOAD LETTER]

But you're an anarchist....
What does that have to do with anything?

[Agent Ducky]

Technically I guess I'm a prole because I have a job?
But mostly I subsist off my parents' income (still in high school) and my dad owns a really small business but my mom works for the government. What does it meeeean?

[ВАЛТЕР]

I suppose Proletariat and Petite-Bourgeoisie?? idk...

My father drives a truck and my mother has a small embroidery/screen printing business we run from our basement. Which is cool cause I get to make shirts if I feel like it sometimes...

I get to make cool shirts when I feel like it. However we are far from wealthy. Although in we got the means of production...:cool:

[Ernesto Che Makuc]

my dad and mom go to middle class

dad: works behind a computer in a office (sells products to other countires)
mom: kinder garden teacher

[Kosakk]

Prole. From a low-educated family, allthough me siblings are getting higher education.

But I say I'm prole, most people would say middle class (for Northern Europe, that is). Bollocks imo.
You either own the means of production or you don't.

[Ballyfornia]

Ehh, Mother's a teacher and Dads unemployed so i'd say I would be Working class/lower middle?

[∞]

idk how someones working class if they're unemployed.

[Decolonize The Left]

I'd type more, but I have to go sell my labor in a bit.

- August

[Fawkes]

What does that have to do with anything?

Nothing, it was a lame attempt at sarcasm given how often anarchists are passed off as all being petit-bourgeois college kids.

[NewLeft]

I voted bourgeois, by accident.. (maybe)

[PC LOAD LETTER]

Nothing, it was a lame attempt at sarcasm given how often anarchists are passed off as all being petit-bourgeois college kids.Ah, that was a *whooosh* moment for me. I've only ever met a handful of other anarchists in my life, and they were all in my neighborhood.

One of my best friends embraced the anarchist theories after being in and out of jail for the last several years. His older sister gave him an Emma Goldman collection, among other writings when he got out the last time ...

Like I said before, all in this same neighborhood. Most petit-bourgeois folks I meet are right-wing libertarians ...

[roy]

Dishwasher :D

Scullery maidens of the world, UNITE!

[CAleftist]

Bill Gates is actually a really cool guy.

lolwut

[Marxaveli]

Unsure I guess. My dad has owned his own business and was very successful, my mom comes from a working class family but she was lucky to land a job as an escrow officer and ultimately become lower middle class. Me and my brother are the first on my mom's side to go to college as far as I know, though my dads side I am not.

[Bright Banana Beard]

Right, kiddies has every goddamn rights to complain about how shitty the low wage job is and how fookin stupid it is that they aren't entitled to go through college low debt to make more money than those shitty people making little money. How dare the college put me in a a same position as those lowly-wagers.

[Marxaveli]

Wow, sorry for wanting to learn and better myself. Yes, how dare I!!!:rolleyes:

[Sputnik_1]

student (poor student), looking for some bourgeois scum to gently buy my fucking labor. Oh, and daughter of working class people.

[Pioneers_Violin]

As Prole as Prole can be.

Got the absolutely demolished nails and skin to prove it.
As well as the better strength, endurance, quick reflex and sharp wit that goes with it.


Working life is hard. Really hard and mostly thankless. Too cold, too hot, too damp and waaaay too dirty too.
But it could be worse.... I could be and was raised to be just another brainless wannabe-Bourgie scum slithering up the Rat-Race ladder....

Am very glad that I didn't go to the bad like that.... ;)