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minus-squareRecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·edit-22 years agoAh, right Lion Philips was the founder’s gramps. Still wealthy though. Do some people just have an opinion in mind and then look for any tiny evidence to support that? I really hope you see the irony in that statement. Marx may not have been rich but a lawyer’s son at that time wasn’t exactly proletariat either.
minus-squaredariusj18@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years ago… He was literally working class. The literal definition of the proletariat. He was exactly proletariat. Earning more or less money is not the distinguishing characteristic.
Ah, right Lion Philips was the founder’s gramps. Still wealthy though.
I really hope you see the irony in that statement. Marx may not have been rich but a lawyer’s son at that time wasn’t exactly proletariat either.
… He was literally working class. The literal definition of the proletariat. He was exactly proletariat. Earning more or less money is not the distinguishing characteristic.