February 20, 2026
Capitalists and Proletarians

Today’s world is not divided between extremely poor proletarians and extremely rich capitalists.

There are very wealthy entrepreneurs, medium-sized ones, and modest ones; there are the very rich, the rich, the upper middle class, the middle class, the lower middle class, the relatively poor, and the absolutely poor (who nevertheless do not suffer from hunger).

And then there are countless categories: permanent employees and temporary workers, professionals and artisans, laborers and white-collar employees of every rank, and so on.

All these categories have different interests, sometimes opposed, sometimes parallel. For example, the unemployed and entrepreneurs may at times have interests closer to each other than those of workers and other employed people.

The world has not evolved in the direction predicted by Marx, but in the opposite way: the middle class has not disappeared; rather, it has become the great majority of the population.