I understand the (classic) socialist perspective, as I would prefer to work for myself, rather than see my productivity benefiting some faceless corporate share holders. I see a shift towards more people working for themselves, and establishing more independence as being a fantastic thing! In the sense that Lysander Spooner was a "socialists" I might be one too according to some classic definitions.

The Marxist Error?

The Marxist error is not in the support of community organizations, self-or-muralist employment, or even in recognizing value extracted by capitalists. The Marxist error is the habit of (1) marginalizing all property and capital, while placing the collective and laborer on a pedestal.

The problem is Marxists and modern Leftists often take it too far and assert the extreme opposite; demonizing all "capitalists," supporting forced redistribution schemes, and using terminology like wage-slavery, proletariat, and bourgeois. Maybe working for a capitalist is less-than-perfect, but their alternative(s) are far worse,

The Capitalist Error?

What about the reverse? Do "capitalist" supporters sometimes take it to a similar extreme, and overstep the bounds of reason and ethics? Take this this thread for example. It's an almost picture-perfect example of what a Marxist might call a "capitalist apologist," as some persons in that thread sought to (2) marginalize nearly all contributions of labor while placing capital on a pedestal.

That's the exact same mistake the Marxists made! In the pursuit of defeating one bad ideology, another false-dichotomy arises to face the challenge, just like the good-old Republican vs Democrat debate, where both sides know nothing, except that the other side is full of shit.

Keeping Perspective?

Consider one person arguing "The value of a car is in the wheels, without wheels there is no car!" Another argues "No, you've got it all wrong, the value of the car is in the engine, without an engine, the car goes nowhere!"

Truth is usually far less "black or white," and instead looks far more like an spectrum of possibilities. There are many types of capital, many types of labor, and many other influences on productivity, wealth, and human well-being that don't fit neatly inside the capital/labor dichotomy.