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

Class is not determined by the size of the compensation paid:

“ Democrats have never been a “party of workers,” as Matt Karp describes them, let alone a party of the working class. We, as socialists, must refuse the insistence of professional pollsters, and the liberal media trailing after them, that “working class” is directly correlated to “non-college educated.” No Marxist I have read would make that assertion. For us, class is measured by one’s relation to the relations of production —what one does, and for whom, not the size of a paycheck , or educational credentials.” “Portside- Who Is Working-Class, and Why It Matters. ” Van Gosse. April 9, 2022. https://portside.org/2022-04-19/who-working-class-and-why-it-matters ( https://portside.org/2022-04-19/who-working-class-and-why-it-matters )

"We shall assume that he is a mere wage-labourer, even one of the better paid, for all the difference it makes. Whatever his pay, as a wage-labourer he works part of his time for nothing." https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1885-c2/ch06.htm

JAI


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