Remember that many small businesses in the USA are not profitable or are barely profitable. The small business tyrant and the petty bourgeois that are entirely disconnected from their workers, I would say, is a different sort of class of people than those small business owners who basically have hobby shops. My roommate has a cleaning business like this, it’s just him and one person he contracts sometimes to help and he makes like $3000 a year from it doing side-jobs on the weekends. This isn’t exactly the same class position as a small business owner in the Leninist sense when talking about the petty bourgeois.
I think the line comes when the business starts making serious profit, enough that it becomes the owners primary income stream - and also has employees.
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Remember that many small businesses in the USA are not profitable or are barely profitable. The small business tyrant and the petty bourgeois that are entirely disconnected from their workers, I would say, is a different sort of class of people than those small business owners who basically have hobby shops. My roommate has a cleaning business like this, it’s just him and one person he contracts sometimes to help and he makes like $3000 a year from it doing side-jobs on the weekends. This isn’t exactly the same class position as a small business owner in the Leninist sense when talking about the petty bourgeois.
I think the line comes when the business starts making serious profit, enough that it becomes the owners primary income stream - and also has employees.
Well yes, the amount of M-C-M you’re doing does quite directly translate to your class position
Great context but yeah they most definitely chose to highlight the smaller part of it because they are very scared of this spreading