Not exactly. Someone was describing himself as "working class" in a political discussion about Severance, a discussion which was tending heavily towards as Marxism. Marxism was originally about "the workers."
So an observation about current leanings of the workers is hardly irrelevant.
I’m not sure, there might be some misunderstanding here. The discussion tends towards marxism because marxist theory uses the same term heavily. That does not mean marxists are the only one using it (social psychologists do as well), nor does it mean marxists rely on it (they don’t, but it is helpful). You could say, marxism is a corollary discussion to this article.
The post this spun from is actually a really good comment, as it states clearly how this article relates to us tech workers, despite mostly belonging to upper class (or at least the upper-middle class):
> "upper class" tech workers (many of those who browse this site) who are still bound by IP and trade secret laws and are effectively insulated from the fruits of their labor.
This is a comment on the worker-boss dynamic which marxism describes in detail. And the realization is that the same dynamic extends even when the worker belongs to a social class not usually described in marxism.
What political party a member of the working class tends to vote is largely irrelevant to this discussion. Though it is fun to ponder. The democratic party is in essence not a worker’s party and in theory it is not in the interest of the average worker to vote for them. In fact, I would argue that most voters in the USA never voted for them en masse (with the exception of the great depression when F.D.R. advocated the new deal). Most workers have historically remained non-voting, and those that do vote do so for different reasons then to further the interest of the working class. That is, if they do vote democratic they do so despite their capitalist agenda, not because of their pro worker agenda.
Now I actually do like this tangent—even though it is irrelevant to the post this sub-thread spun from—because in the show, one of the worker’s “outie” is actually an advocate for the ruling class’ political party, who’s interest align with the business elite. She treats her “innie” with nothing but disrespect and is willing to let her suffer so she can exploit her labor. The struggle between her innie and her outie is a nice allegory for class struggle in general, and the fact that she is tied to a political party is a nice statement on how our political system tends to align it self with the owning class, and against the workers.
