Arguably, most of the US population was petit bourgeois through the end of the 19th century.
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---------- Original Message ---------- From: Charles Brown <cb31450 at gmail.com> To: lbo-talk <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Against “Neoliberalism”by Michael Dawson, former LBO-talk list member Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 07:06:28 -0500
Americans have had an unusually large mass of people with petit bourgeois personality or embued with the "entrepreneurial spirit" since the start. See the last chapter of _Capital_. Many many farmers who have small plots of land, own their means of production, and are petty producers, potential capitalists.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch33.htm
On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 9:52 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> I think there are a couple of uses to the notion of neoliberalism. One is the conscious appropriation and application of state power by its Mont Pelerin planners to create the market they dreamed of. And the other is, following Foucault, the transformation of all of us from "workers" or "citizens" into little entrepreneurs of the self, custodians of our human capital.
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