"Class Reductionism" is a Straw Man. So is "Class Abstractionism."

There are real debates to be had about the merits of class-first approaches to left politics. This isn't the way to have them.

Socialists want to replace the current system of private ownership of the means of production with a new system based on collective ownership and economic democracy. Along the way to that long-term goal, we want to implement “socialist policies” like Medicare for All and tuition-free higher education, and we tend to go on and on about the importance of …