Who is the "working class" in the 21st Century? And what do they need?
I don't know how to take a 19th Century Marxist analysis and map it on top of a highly-developed 21st Century economy. The global economy has grown, diversified, and specialized so much since then, with more inequality than Marx could've imagined. A seemingly infinite variety of jobs, skills, careers, educational degrees, business entities, goods
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I find that "the working class" itself has structurally become pretty complex since then - too complex to just apply the old schemes and definitions of Marx's living span to them.
One thing you already name - it's actually been very common until much of the time of the 20th century that "workers" were only thought of as "people who work until their bones break" - physical labor - by the socialist/communist disciples.
In the 70s and 80s where way more service workers came into existing because of the national economies arriving in a modern age, this slowly started to change.
Intelligentsia jobs - jobs which you can only occupy by studying and acquiring higher education - had that trouble way longer, if it didn't have a connection to a former worker job (meaning: being a job that a worker can aquire by formally studying deeper in the subject that it practiced as a worker job before).
Actually they partially still have that trouble. - As I find, mostly people which have no ( ... )
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