Recently, the class struggle on the Internet has intensified, and the entrepreneurs who get rich first are undoubtedly classified as bourgeoisie, and the others are the "exploited" proletariat who feel that they can't survive.
I'm confused myself, what class should I be divided into?
I didn't get rich first, I didn't achieve financial freedom, I didn't dare to go to a physical store to buy clothes, I bought them online, and if the upper of my running shoes was broken, as long as the soles were good, I would go to make up for them and hold on for a few months. The next restaurant also chooses a cost-effective restaurant, which has a similar standard of living as most people estimate.
I felt like I might be proletarian.
But I also have a small house and a broken car for transportation, no serious illness and no big pressure, and I can travel blindly from time to time. This standard of living is similar to that of many ordinary people, and it seems that it is not the proletariat in the concept, so it is better to have a sheltered house to live in.
So I looked up the information to find out what class I was.
According to official sources, the bourgeoisie refers to the class that owns the means of production in society. The proletariat is a class that does not have its own means of production and therefore has to sell its labor power to make ends meet.
In comparison, I have no means of production, I have to sell my labor power to make a living, I am really a proletariat.
But how do I think that my proletariat is not as miserable as those advanced theories say? Am I heartless and stupid?
I continue to read the official explanation that the domination of labour by capital and the resulting rules and regulations will cause oppression to the proletariat, and that the proletariat must carry out a revolution by means of certain principles of organization, using authority to unite all forces against the rule of the bourgeoisie.
It seems that I, a proletariat, am also unqualified, I don't hate the boss of the company, the boss treats me very well, I am not jealous that the boss is rich, and I thank him for the opportunity he gave me.
Confused, I continued to study the official sources, saying that in modern non-Marxist Chinese usage, the bourgeoisie and the proletariat are often used to refer to the rich and the poor, not necessarily to those who own or do not own the means of production.
Looking at the back, it is said that the popular saying in society now, distinguishing between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, originally was still divided according to the rich and the poor.
According to this standard, I am not a rich person, and I don't seem to be a poor person in the general impression, entrepreneurs pay taxes and operate legally according to the law, and I have all the insurance benefits that I deserve, and I seem to have no reason to hate their "exploitation" and fight against them. I don't think the treatment is good, the work is too hard, I can pat my ass and leave at any time, and I don't have to be restricted by his "exploitation". The "oppression" in the official information is **? It's not a black coal kiln, which restricts personal freedom and makes you work for nothing.
I'm even more confused as to why some people on the Internet shout at the rich and kill them, and some even openly shout the slogan of "confiscate their property". It is estimated that when the rich heard this slogan, their hearts were excited.
I remembered a sentence that Deng Gong said, and Deng Gong was asked what he thought of a good life of common prosperity as he thought. Deng Gong said that his ideal was to "be an ordinary citizen of a moderately developed country".
Moderately developed represents the level of affluence, and ordinary citizens represent the degree of affluence.
I read this passage and agreed very much, and from Deng Gong's words, I also understood my wish, that is, I am fortunate to live in a country where reform and opening up are changing with each passing day, and the people live and work in peace and contentment, with democracy and freedom, and a social environment that encourages legal prosperity and protects legitimate property, and I am an ordinary citizen. There is no bourgeoisie and proletariat in this country, there is no contradiction between friend and foe, only the contribution and gain of everyone under the rule of law.
Finally, I also want to be a rich man, of course, I can't make illegal profits.
So those who hate the rich, do you hate the rich? Or do you hate yourself for not being rich?