by Robert JensenMost politicians pledge to work for the working class, or sometimes for working families, a less Marxist-sounding label. Once upon a time, the working class was understood as people in capitalist economies who don’t own the means of production and must sell their labor to owners. I came out of the working class. Today, I can pass as working class when I show up in my 30-year-old pickup with a shovel and saw. Have I ever been “authentically” working class?