I've seen lefty podcast types argue that retail workers aren't the *real* working class because those aren't the *real* jobs that keep the country running, they're "divorced from the country's productive base" Using a lot of big words to circle back around to Fox News ideologyhttps://twitter.com/tonyhell/status/1324806952300367872 …
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This is an original sin of Marxism, with Marx allowing the concept of the "lumpenproletariat", a materialist gloss on the Christian idea of "undeserving poor" Poor people whom the revolution may someday help but who can't be part of it because they don't have "real jobs"
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At the time Marx only targeted the jobs that were most universally stigmatized as not "real" -- beggars, burglars, con artists, prostitutes The modern construction of the "PMC" lets you basically expand this category at will
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