people realize that Marx’s concept of work and who is a worker has been developed since Marx, right? like, feminist theorists developed a theory of workers that incorporates the unemployed house spouse, the disabled, the unhoused, etc. this has been the status quo for decades.
My other take that may get me grief is that even though I think the term is useful for class consciousness, focusing your Leftism solely around ‘workers’ when it comes to who deserves to have their needs addressed is a built-in concession that you’re willing to abandon the needy who can’t work.