Negri on globo

[Joe R. Golowka]

> >  > I venture to say that the proportion of the international proletariat
> >>  who retire with stocks worth a million dollars is insignificant.
> >
> >==============
> >That's a great way to evade the question. What threshold of stock
> >ownership constitutes terming someone a capitalist?
> >
> >Ian
>
> Can you (and your dependents, if you have any) live on your privately
> owned financial assets (= claims on surplus value produced by others)
> alone, without work (for yourself or others) and without Social
> Security (and the like that may be better called deferred solidarity
> wages)?  That's the question that excludes most people from the ranks
> of the bourgeoisie.  Most people have only their house, vehicle, & a
> little savings (that can support them perhaps for some months) to
> their names, if they have any assets at all.

That would make a lot of retired workers capitalists.  Anyone with a 401K
who saves enough to retire would be a capitalist.