在当代西方社会中，随着股份公司的普遍发展，尤其是大量小额股票的发行，使部分工人能够持有少量小额股票。西方一些学者把这种现象说成是资本主义的质变。他们把股票等同于资本所有权，认为工人持有股票就变成资本家了，由此宣扬当代资本主义社会中工人阶级正在消失，资本主 In contemporary Western society, with the common development of joint-stock companies, especially the issuance of a large number of small stocks, some workers can hold a small number of small stocks. Some Western scholars have described this phenomenon as a qualitative change in capitalism. They equate stocks with capital ownership, and think that when workers hold stocks they become capitalists, thus proclaiming that the working class in contemporary capitalist society is disappearing and that capitalists