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workerism
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English
Etymology
Noun
workerism (countable and uncountable, plural workerisms)
- Various trends in left-wing political discourse, especially anarchism and Marxism, that emphasize the political importance and centrality of the working class.
- 2025 June 26, Tyler Austin Harper, “The Blockbuster That Captured a Growing American Rift”, in The Atlantic:
- But the differences between these two works matter because they anticipated a fight that has arguably defined American politics since at least 2016, between a technocratic managerialism that champions college education and a nostalgic workerism that aims to defend and restore stable blue-collar employment and tends to resent members of the highly educated class.
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