For a movement that is obsessed with class distinctions and interclass conflict, the Democratic Socialists of America don’t seem to have an uncontested definition of what makes someone a member of the “working class.”
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani recently took a stab at it, though not to the satisfaction of his interlocutor, the New York Times’ Lulu Garcia-Navarro:
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Mamdani’s confusion is not his alone. He and his fellow Democratic Socialists are apt to craft definitions so expansive that they include well-compensated professionals — from programmers to doctors who are “making $400,000-plus,” according to New York City DSA co-chair Grace Mausser — ...
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