Re: definition of a worker

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert)]

Right.  He called these people "petite bourgeoisie", and that these people
almost always ended up becoming "workers" (i.e., working for someone else
for pay, using someone else's resources, and having someone else own the
result of the labor).  I can think of several examples of when this
doesn't happen, but such self-employed people didn't fit well into Marx's
overall argument and therefore he discarded their presence from any
analysis.

But, this is yet another example of why it's incredibly difficult to
cleanly define a "worker".  For example, is a retiree a worker because
they put effort into filling out paperwork to get benefits?