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American Gentry (www.theatlantic.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

They have a soft paywall now: https://archive.ph/zDCqm

These elites’ wealth derives not from their salary—this is what separates them from even extremely prosperous members of the professional-managerial class, such as doctors and lawyers—but from their ownership of assets.

The Atlantic has gone tankie.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wouldn't call that take tankie.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It’s a joke. Ask a dozen liberals what a tankie is and you’ll get a dozen conflicting answers. It’s just the new pejorative thought-terminating cliché, like “commie” or “pinko”.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Patrick Wyman in general has pretty good analysis I find. He's a historian, and he has a great podcast series on the fall of Rome which I can highly recommend.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The Atlantic has gone tankie.

What does this mean?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I mean they’ve identified the core difference between the proletariat/working class and the bourgeoisie/capitalist class. Namely that the bourgeoisie accumulate their wealth through their ownership of the means of production.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

It's similar to Marxist analysis, and Marxists are always slandered as "tankies."