That doesn't clarify that he doesn't consider small business owners to be on the owner side of the worker/ owner distinction. If anything it seemed to be commenting on their political disposition but like I said the quote was too out of context to say for certain.
Like I've sort of allowed you to run me down this dumb meandering road where you pivot from one thing to another but my initial statement about some owners being lower on the class totem pole than some workers is true even if I allow your exception for plumbers or whatever. Let's cut right through the bul****. If the person in question owns a small business that employs a handful of people for a wage, is that a capitalist in your eyes even if their income from doing so might be less than that of a surgeon who is employed by a hospital or something? Can someone literally exploit workers for the surplus value created by their labor and not be a capitalist?
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