Re: NYT: A Working-Class Party Without Many Workers

Your second paragraph sets the scientific definition of worker - someone who has only her labor power to sell - against the stratification definition. Good.

Your third paragraph admits that DSA does not recruit evenly across the entire spectrum of workers. The question is, how much of that is inevitable for sociological reasons, and how much of it is a result of DSA's ideology, arenas of action, and methods of activity?

For example, the communist Progressive Labor Party is much closer than DSA to Black membership matching the Black proportion in the working class.

Insofar as DSA has an overall economic program, it is market socialism, not socialist overall allocation of investment. Market socialism offers more-educated workers opportunities to become privileged managers of market-socialist firms.


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