It doesn’t reference to anything, I’m just fooling around. But to enter serious mode: It doesn’t matter how many economists worked a proletarian job. The point is that Marx made statements about the proletariat without experiencing it or doing field studies. Neither did I btw but Simone Weil wrote a great critique of Marx. For example Marx thought that the most oppressed are the ones most likely to begin a revolution which is wrong. The most exploited don’t have the energy to do anything after work. This doesn’t destroy the Marxist framework, obviously. Later Marxists made up for this, like the Marxist feminism which also rectified that Marx only had men in mind. There are eco Marxists applying the framework to a topic, neither him nor his contemporaries had in mind.
To position myself: I’m not a Marxist but I find myself aligning with some Marxists more than others. I’m a huge fan of John the Duncan for example.
It doesn’t reference to anything, I’m just fooling around. But to enter serious mode: It doesn’t matter how many economists worked a proletarian job. The point is that Marx made statements about the proletariat without experiencing it or doing field studies. Neither did I btw but Simone Weil wrote a great critique of Marx. For example Marx thought that the most oppressed are the ones most likely to begin a revolution which is wrong. The most exploited don’t have the energy to do anything after work. This doesn’t destroy the Marxist framework, obviously. Later Marxists made up for this, like the Marxist feminism which also rectified that Marx only had men in mind. There are eco Marxists applying the framework to a topic, neither him nor his contemporaries had in mind.
To position myself: I’m not a Marxist but I find myself aligning with some Marxists more than others. I’m a huge fan of John the Duncan for example.