There is no middle class. There are only two classes: capital and labor. If you trade your labor (your time/your services/your work) in return for a wage, you're labor class. Even if you make $1M a year. This is hard to grasp, especially for those at the top of the payscale.

Capital is defined by owning some kind of resources that require labor to run, and thus, to generate income. The ideal of capital is to do as little to no work as possible. Literally, "passive income." The work is done by labor. This generates more resources for capital.

Doctors, lawyers, accountants, even stock brokers... If you can't stop putting in labor in order to receive income, you're still labor. Small and medium business owners? If you're an own-manager, you're out on the shop floor--you're not capital. You're labor.

We've created this myth that owning a small business or making a high income is the difference between being poor or rich, the difference between being lower class or middle class--or even "upper middle class" (whatever the hell that is supposed to mean).

Even being a landowner isn't necessarily the same as being capital. It CAN be, if everyone else does the work on the land, and you live off the profits. BUT if you are actively laboring on your own land, and you couldn't afford to stop, or you would lose your land--you're labor.

The difference between capital and labor is really the question of whether your life would fundamentally change/be worse if you simply stopped working and lived off of the work of others even if that work is utilising what you "own." If no, you are capital. If yes, you are labor.

Many of the members of the capital class continue to "work" (in the most casual definition of that word). They continue to expend effort because they desire purpose or dignity or just want to avoid being bored. This isn't labor. Not in terms of the class system.

Class solidarity will continue to be impossible if we fail to understand what class actually is. Lots of supposedly "rich" people aren't capital. Seeing them as the enemy helps capital ("ultra-rich" "mega-rich" ) keep labor divided. Class isn't about the size of your paycheck.

Class is about whether you are the one receiving the paycheck or the one WRITING the paycheck. And I mean the true writer. Managers themselves usually labor. I know, this is also hard to grasp. But they are. Middle-management is the definition of labor turned on labor.