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matiasm
24th November 2005, 05:21
I have a question about my uncle its more of getting your opnion on how you would judge/tag/describe him.
My uncle was a good earning manager for a well known bank in uruguay. Until the bank collapsed and closed all throughout the country.
He is still geeting paid by the central bank of Uruguay a wage (less then what he was getting before) as a compensation wage for about 4 more years i think.

Anyways i wana know how you would judge him or how you would describe him, he is very caring has a familiy he helps out alot, he owns a few houses which he rents out, and some of the tenants cant pay the rent and he never asks for it, until they are really behind, he might ask for a little of it, he had these tenenats that never paid rent and then they left, he never claimed anythign of them or anythign he just left it, he also has a small little farm (chacra) he has this guy working on it for him which he pays him well and takes care him in every way. Whenever this guy needs more money and if he asked my uncle, my uncle will give it to him, my uncle has paid for hospital visist for his young daughter and evrything, actually also, the guy has got heaps of other random jobs becasue of my uncle, my uncle treats him as a friend though and always invites him over for dinner and other ocasions.

So basically you could (but shouldnt) class this guy as a proletartiat casue he only sells his labour to live and tos support his familiy.

where does my uncle fall under? which category or how would you describe him?

I sincerely think he is a good man, he even HATES Bush (who doesnt?)

kurt
24th November 2005, 05:31
He's bourgeois.

matiasm
24th November 2005, 05:47
bourgeois exploit the proletariat class, he doesnt exploit, he gives and helps. a bourgeois wouldnt invite his worker for dinner or pay him for when he needs extra funds.

kurt
24th November 2005, 06:52
Originally posted by [email protected] 24 2005, 05:52 AM
bourgeois exploit the proletariat class, he doesnt exploit, he gives and helps. a bourgeois wouldnt invite his worker for dinner or pay him for when he needs extra funds.
He's a benevolent bourgeois. It doesn't really matter, marxist class analysis doesn't have any soft spots for benevolent exploiters.

sovietsniper
24th November 2005, 12:16
He sounds progressive. Introduce him to marxism, and remember even engals was a factory owner.

matiasm
24th November 2005, 21:51
yeah, the world has alot of these kinds of people, they did not change into this sort of man but obivously were brought into this world which was already corrupted.

Just like what Marx points out in "The Communist Manifesto" we are born already in a struggle against this. I dont think its in his conscious to exploit people, but it happens due to the evolution of man, only thing now is "Change".

Thanks for your opinions, i have my own opinion of him though.