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?

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    There's a few people they allow to write rare one-offs for them that are occasionally excellent. I pay attention to anything written by professors or communists. Ash Sarkar occasionally gets to write for them and is worth paying attention to despite being a trot, I always have time for Owen Jones too.

    Obviously The Guardian as a whole is dogshit but here in the UK edition it does actually get used as a vessel for some good things... Nothing truly radical is allowed of course. But some good analysis and some good socdem (actually socdem properly left of Bernie) stuff that includes class.