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This is a definition intended to push people towards your preferred ideology rather than a neutral description of how the phrase is used out in the wild.
by bradleyjg 6y ago
This is a definition intended to push people towards your preferred ideology rather than a neutral description of how the phrase is used out in the wild.
- ohgodplsno 6y agoNo, this is the original definition of class struggle. Anything else ("middle class", "upper class") is just an attempt by bourgeois to divide people by trying to make them feel like they're part of a different, special group.
- bradleyjg 6y agoAppealing to originalism, accurately or not, still isn’t descriptivism.
- Pfhreak 6y agoWikipedia disagrees? Yes, the colloquial usage often implies poor/lower class or physical labor, but it's not the only use of the term. (Just like the phrase 'Middle Class' has really fuzzy boundaries in the US.)