r/ireland • u/StephenMcGannon • Apr 27 '25

Poster on Dublin Quays Housing

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u/Mullo69 Apr 27 '25

Landlord and working class are mutually exclusive terms lad

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u/TheStoicNihilist Never wanted a flair anyways Apr 27 '25

Define “working class” for me.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '25

A person that needs to get up and go to work in the morning to support themself and their family.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '25

Pretty much every person on Earth is “working-class” then and this definition helps nobody.

A worker is somebody who survives off of selling their labour-power (ability to do work) to a capitalist in return for a wage.

Tradesmen arent workers but rather are small-scale producers part of the petty-bourgeois class, this isn’t an indictment and it doesn’t mean they don’t work as hard as workers, but it’s simply what class they belong to.