the worst take i've ever seen on UK reddit
*Discussing whether or not Keir Starmer is working class*
"Starmer? Working class?? His dad owned the factory!"
"Can working class people not own stuff? There are plenty of MPs on 80k a year who are still working class. Business owners can be working class. My dad owned his own business and blimey, he would have something to say if anyone told him he wasn't working class."
the worst take i've ever seen on UK reddit, misunderstanding?
@PsyChuan This sounds like a misunderstanding to me. In tge UK "working class" is afaik much more of a cultural marker, so the take is complete gibberish from a marxist/economic point of view, but not the cultural one.
And yeah, this almost surely has disastrous consequences for actual class consciousness.
