You could argue that the animating impulse of the loudest voices in the Democratic Party are about 1) equality under the law and 2) justice for historical wrongs that will make that legal equality a material reality.
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This formulation obviously excludes what you might call economic justice (which is ultimately premised on "homeless near a thousand homes I stood..."), and also has a shaky relationship with immigration (though I could justify more generous immigration policy on ground 2).
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Or really, really what it is is that we're about equality under the law for all Americans, not just citizens. And we understand, based on the simple reality on the ground, that undocumented Americans are Americans nonetheless.
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Anyway, I wonder what rubric would embrace both equality and something like unionization, which is important but is not immediately about equality as we usually think about it.
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I suppose the answer is an anti-hegemonic politics that embraces wealth/poverty and workers/capitalists as axes on which we struggle against hegemony.
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Although I will say, both socialists and Jesus don't talk so much about a balance between the first and the last as about flipping the structure. Dictatorship of the proletariat, first shall be last and all that. (Differences, to be sure, but.)
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