Date: 22 Jun 2001 11:03:42 +0200
From: "Tahir Wood" <twood-AT-uwc.ac.za>
Subject: Re: AUT: capitalist as risk-taker and supervisor




>>> commie00-AT-yahoo.com 06/21/01 07:12PM >>>
 there are small
business owners who make way less than some factory workers, but they are
ruling class and the factory workers are obviously not.

I think that when class analysis reaches conclusions like this - and blandly  stated as if it were simply a matter of fact - then something is clearly wrong. What practical use is it to characterise someone who owns a little corner shop and makes enough just to scrape by as belonging to the same class as a director of a multinational company? And why stop there - why not say that the vendors that you find along the street in any African city are also ruling class if they happen to employ an assistant? 

This seems to me to be the kind of thing that gives theory a bad name.

Tahir



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