On 12/1/2010 6:46 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
> No, because there's a lot more precision to the names. Yeah, there are
> some blurry areas, but workers live from paycheck to paycheck and
> rarely give orders on the job. Capitalists employ workers and, if
> they're of any consequence, have substantial resources to their name.
> Populists often want to throw small business owners in with The
> People, when they're at best one of those blurry areas.
So Marxists and populists each have their respective blurry areas - small business owners on the one hand, highly paid skilled workers on the other. Maybe Marxists are more self-aware about their contradictions, but there are still contradictions on both sides.
SA