Question

Adding Erik Olin Wright’s concept of contradictory class locations to the Marxist concept of capitalists versus the proletariat, label the workers according to their positions in a class-based economy.

1. a freelance graphic artist
2. Correct label:
3. contradictorya
4. salaried paralegal assistant at a law firm

Answer 1

The workers working in a class-based economy can be labeled as below:

Proletariat: A salaried paralegal assistant at a law firm - According to Marxist ideology, the proletariats have conventionally been thought of as the ones who bear the burden of society's work on their shoulders.

Capitalist: The owner of a large franchised restaurant - The capitalists have been believed to be a class of overprivileged men according to the Marxist way of thinking.

Contradictory: A freelance graphic artist and the head of printing press operations at a major newspaper - The nature of this society in which the classes mentioned above reside together is deemed as antagonistic and contradictory.