A CLASS ANALYSIS OF THE TRUMP-BIDEN RERUN
By Richard D . Wolff
By “ class system ” we mean the basic workplace organizations — the human relationships or “ social relations ” — that accomplish the production and distribution of goods and services . Some examples include the master / slave , communal village , and lord / serf organizations . Another example , the distinctive capitalist class system , entails the employer / employee organization . In the United States and in much of the world , it is now the dominant class system . Employers — a tiny minority of the population — direct and control the enterprises and employees that produce and distribute goods and services . Employers buy the labor power of employees — the population ’ s vast majority — and set it to work in their enterprises . Each enterprise ’ s output belongs to its employer who decides whether to sell it , sets the price , and receives and distributes the resulting revenue .
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