What Class Are They In?
Jeff Bezos.
What is a (big) capitalist/bourgeoisie?
The two authors of The Communist Manifesto (1848).
Who are Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels?
The man who wrote volume one of Capital: A Critique of Political Economy.
Who is Karl Marx?
The Marxist term for the working class.
Who are the proletariat?
A black man in early 1930s Alabama who rents farmland and farm equipment through debt and pays the landowner back with a portion of their harvest.
What is a proletarian (sharecropper)?
The author of the book The State and Revolution (1917).
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
A famous Italian Marxist who was incarcerated under Mussolini in the 1920s and 1930s and who advanced concepts such as "hegemony" and "common sense."
Who is Antonio Gramsci?
The form that products of labor take under the capitalist mode of production.
What is a commodity?
A woman who is a tenured professor at Columbia University.
What is a petit/petty-bourgeoisie?
The author of The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (1938).
Who is C.L.R. James?
The black woman and political activist who fled to Cuba in the late 1970s and died on September 25, 2025.
Who is Assata Shakur?
The term commonly used to refer to the value that capitalists appropriate from the labor of workers.
What is surplus value?
The owner of Third Street Stuff in Lexington, KY.
What is a (small) capitalist/bourgeoisie?
A famous Marxist-feminist and the author of the influential 1975 essay "Wages Against Housework."
Who is Silvia Federici?
The woman who was the founder of the Spartacus League in 1914.
Who is Rosa Luxemburg?
The "labor-time needed to produce a given use-value under a society’s normal conditions of production, using labor that has an average skill and intensity.”
What is socially necessary labor time?
An influencer on TikTok who makes most of their money through advertising deals.
What is a petit/petty-bourgeoisie?
The year that the first, original German edition of volume 1 of Capital: A Critique of Political Economy was published.
What is 1867?
The woman buried to the left of Karl Marx in London's Highgate Cemetery.
Who is Claudia Jones?
A Marxist concept, popular in the 1970s and 1980s, that refers to the complicated, interconnected and constantly interacting material and ideological components of a given society.
What is a social formation?