1. Class consciousness

    In Marxism, class consciousness is the set of beliefs that persons hold regarding their social class or economic rank in society, the structure of their class, and their common class interests. According to Karl Marx, class consciousness is an awareness that is key to sparking a revolution which would "create a dictatorship of the proletariat, transforming it from a wage-earning, propertyless mass into the ruling class". Although Marxists tend to focus on class consciousness among the proletariat, the upper classes in society can also think and act in a class-conscious way. As Leonard Fein pointed out, "The very rich have been well aware of their class privilege and have laboured mightily to protect and defend it". For example, Warren Buffett has demonstrated class consciousness: "There's class warfare, all right... but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning." Wikipedia

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  2. en.wikipedia.org

    Mises allowed that class consciousness and the associated class struggle were valid concepts in some circumstances where rigid social castes exist, e.g., when slavery is legal and slaves have a common motive for wanting to end their disadvantaged status relative to other castes, but that class is an arbitrary distinction in capitalist society ...
  3. britannica.com

    Class consciousness is a historical phenomenon, born out of collective struggle. In this sense, Marx did not approach class consciousness as a matter of pure ideality. Rejecting any separation of theory and practice, he used the term "conscious human practices" to emphasize the conjunction of subjectivity and objectivity in history.
  4. thoughtco.com

    Class consciousness refers to the awareness by a social or economic class of their position and interests within the structure of the economic order and social system in which they live. In contrast, false consciousness is a perception of one's relationships to social and economic systems of an individual nature, and a failure to see oneself as ...
  5. easysociology.com

    Feb 16, 2024Class consciousness is a central concept in Marxist theory, which sees history as a struggle between the ruling class (bourgeoisie) and the working class (proletariat). According to Karl Marx, the development of class consciousness among the proletariat is essential for the overthrow of capitalist systems and the establishment of a classless ...
  6. sciencedirect.com

    Class Consciousness. Jesus de Felipe-Redondo, in International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Second Edition), 2015. Class Consciousness. The term ' class consciousness ' represents two different, but related, concepts. The first one refers to the awareness that the members of a social class, usually the working class, have of their common class interests (what is called ...
  7. sociology.plus

    Class consciousness is when people in the same social class realize that they share interests based on their class environment and are different from the interests of other classes. Explanation. All the class systems place people into groups based on objective traits. People either own or do not own the means of production, have similar ...
  8. library.fiveable.me

    Class consciousness is the awareness and understanding that individuals have of their social class and its implications on their lives, particularly regarding their interests, rights, and position within systems of power and economic production. It encompasses recognizing commonalities with others in the same class, leading to potential collective action or social change.
  9. library.fiveable.me

    Class consciousness refers to the awareness and understanding that individuals have of their position within the social class structure, and the collective interests and struggles shared by members of the same social class. It is a central concept in Marxist theory, which views class consciousness as a crucial step towards revolutionary change ...
  10. class structure identified in these works do not coincide with empirically identifiable divisions in the consciousness of people located in various positions in the class structure. Thus, they do not provide a satisfactory theory of the general problem of class formation, class consciousness and class action. To rephrase the problem at hand ...
  11. onlinelibrary.wiley.com

    Within the Marxist tradition "class consciousness" refers to the awareness of itself as a class which the dominated class within capitalism, the proletariat, is predicted to arrive at, historically. When the proletariat become aware of themselves as a class and of their collective strength, Marx claims, they will rise up in revolution and ...

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