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A Spectre, Haunting: On The Communist Manifesto

Revolutionary Left Radio

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Isn't the Barista a Working Class?

People always accuse Marxists of having this nostalgic version of class which some do you know about kind of horny-handed sons of toil. I mean that's a wild claim but yeah I've heard people make it for sure, he says. The right wing who will say well how can you say that that barista is working class because she uses hand lotion and she watches Netflix? It's so unbelievably stupid as someone owns the means of production who is reliant on selling their wages they have more in common with Elon Musk than they do with other working-class people according to him.

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