> 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.
Yes. But as Bourdieu said, the two errors of social analysis are, on the one hand, saying "Everything's changed!," and on the other, "Nothing's changed!" Most ordinary workers in the Golden Age, from the 1950s through the 1970s, didn't think of themselves as little entrepreneurs of the self. Now they do.
Doug