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Write short note: Class-in-itself and class-for-itself.

  • UPSC 2003
  • Sociological Thinkers

Karl Marx used the pair Klasse an sich and Klasse für sich, borrowing G. W. F. Hegel's language of "in itself" and "for itself", to separate two moments of class formation: an objective category produced by the economy, and a conscious collective actor produced by struggle.

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