OldMole [he/him]

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  • Class could still be tied to the means of production under a reabstraction where service workers are not seen as proletarian. If you for example choose to see the job of baristas primarily as guarding the goods and making sure it is properly exchanged for money (as opposed to operating machinery), one could claim that this is a meaningful enough distinction in their relation to the means of production to analyze them as a separate class from manufacturing workers. Cops and parts of the intelligentsia are sometimes not seen as proletarian for similar reasons.

    Gravity is also reabstracted all the time, as a force pulling things down, or as mass attracting mass, or as curvature of space-time, etc. Reabstraction does not mean ignoring reality, just choosing to mentally divide it into parts differently. Quoting Marx to assert only one abstraction of class is valid is like insisting you must see gravity as the curvature of space-time in all situations.