>>35604>Having reserves you can sell such as a house when times are dire literally means you aren't at the whim of the fluctuations of demand for laboryes you are. you may have more time to react, but you still need to work for a living
it is also important to define what is meant by "owning" a house. plenty of people who own houses haven't actually paid off the loans attached to them. therefore, being forced to sell at a bad time might mean realizing a loss that a renter would not have to deal with. so a homeowner may actually be in a
worse situation than a renter
both Marx and Engels talk about the existence of "middle classes". do they by this mean the colloquial, Weberist meaning of the world "middle class"? almost surely not, from what I recall
also you have not supplied a source to the quotes in
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