Who is a PMC lib, who is working class? It's obviously not office/factory anymore, most people don't work in factories, right? Why was the focus in communist thought on factories and not, servants, drivers, nannies, maids, cooks and secretaries of the rich – they seem to be easy to radicalise because they see the shittiness and incompetence of the rich day to day, and more importantly are most needing of a union because of the likelihood of abuse by their bosses.
Was it because they don't exactly work together? Can't exactly chat and radicalise? Hard to strike? How do we bring gig economy workers together when the same barriers apply to radicalise them?
So you'd include the professional middle class – like bankers, programmers and maybe doctors as working class too? Anyone who works for their bread. Nice, lots of solidarity.
My question would be this, more often than not, PMC libs ally with small time business owners and the like – how do we show them they belong with the working class? Many of them I guess intend to start their own company.
One can be working class in terms of one’s relation to the means of production, without being proletarian. Petit-bourgeois mindset is rife among the PMC types. I don’t think the PMC are truly a “class” though, individually they’re either members of the petit-boug or non-class conscious workers, with some proletarians scattered in there.