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rich fucks is wrong, it's business owners. commoners is also wrong, it's working class, it's perfectly legible, if diluted via identity signaling term, pensioners are not working class, pickup owning, is not, in itself, working class.
and people do say bougie to describe extravagant spending
Vulgarization of Marxist theory robs it of its revolutionary edge and turns proletarian theory into petty bourgeois radicalism
i do think there is something to be said about not banging on about contradictions, it's dialectical, negations of negations, you have to be able to explain theory in normal language, but like you have to understand something to simplify it.
There's a vast difference between doing what Moissaye Olgin and Gus Hall did in their times with colloquializing Marxist theory into shop floor talk and and doing the capitalists work of robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance as Lenin describes in the very first paragraph of his titular work "State and Revolution"