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Examine Karl Marx’s views on ‘class-in-itself’ and ‘class-for-itself’ with reference to proletarians.

  • UPSC 2010
  • Sociological Thinkers

For Karl Marx, class is an objective relation to the means of production, but a shared relation does not by itself create a historical actor. Class-in-itself (Klasse an sich) and class-for-itself (Klasse für sich) name the gap between position and organised consciousness: the hinge of his theory of proletarian revolution, and its most tested point.

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  • The distinction in Marx
  • The trajectory Marx expected for proletarians
  • Testing the thesis
  • The Indian proletariat
  • Conclusion

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