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Originally Posted by TheBig3
Not that you asked me, but Das Kapital was written in the 1860s. Business owners then aren't business owners now.
I think Chomsky was citing a similar disconnect between what Adam Smith called "Trade" and what we call trade today.
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Considering that we are literally debating the Marxist framework this doesn't feel like a very meaningful objection here. Also I think the owner/ worker dynamic of a small shop would've been roughly the same back then for the distinction we are talking about.