James Woods owns so many homes that he had four just in Rhode Island, in addition to "investment properties"
James Woods to sell home in Exeter
When ever Marxists tell me that these wealthy celebrities (actors, athletes etc.) are working class because they are selling their labour, I remind them that their obscene wealth means they own multiple properties , businesses and investments.
class is not a bright-line category, what matters is the dominant aspect of his relationship to capital the means of production, which is pretty clearly his investments and not his acting compensation. he could stop acting right now
Marxism is dialectic, it rejects absolute pure categories. Things sort of exist on a spectrum but sort of don't. The way Marxists use categories is to understand that everything is connected to each other through a series of quantifiable interconnected steps, but that something is always dominant, and this dominant aspect is what determines the overall quality of the thing in question.
If you're trying to shove everything into a pure category of absolutely worker, absolutely capitalist, then this is just a useless endeavor. When we talk of "worker" or "capitalist," we don't mean it as if these are pure categories, where a worker can't ever own capital, or that a capitalist can't ever do labor. They may do these things, they may exist somewhere in between. But clearly at some point, certain characteristics become dominant over others. Clearly Jeff Bezos's class interests are not the same as a minimum wage worker, as the latter likely has next to no capital while the former has far more capital than he could ever, by his own labor, afford.
There is no reason to try and shove this person you're describing into a specific absolute box. If they're a salaried worker who runs some very small business / self-employment on the side as supplemental income, you could just say they're a worker with petty bourgeois characteristics. You don't have to say they're absolutely "petty bourgeois" or a "worker". You can just describe that they have characteristics of multiple categories. No reason you cannot do this.
—by zhenli真理
My understanding of class is it's defined by your relationship to capital. A shareholder or landlord could do labour, but that doesn't make them working class
It's just buying your way into the owning class. Anyone can do it if they obtain obscene amounts of wealth.
You can it with even a moderate level of wealth
I wouldn't say they're working class, but they're not ruling elites, at least not all of them have businesses.
They're not necessarily haute bourgeois but they're likely best viewed as petit bourgeois at best.
James Woods: NO CEASEFIRE!
Fire: does not cease
James Woods:
they got this all wrong. the card is supposed to say,
"No, Cease fire!"
Crying over your charcoal mansion and then kicking a family out of the apartment complex you own because they were 2 days late on rent.
Shit, please don’t come back to RI, we got enough problems
My house burnt down!
Oh damn that sucks, what are you going to do?
I have to move into house #12!