Social class

• All socialists seek to represent the interests of the working class and diminish class inequality
• Class consciousness is used to describe a stage under capitalism at which the proletariat become aware of their exploitation at the hands of the bourgeoisie. From this a potentially revolutionary class of people emerges to overthrow capitalism, the state and the bourgeoisie
• Social democrats like Keir Starmer define social class in terms of income and status of jobs. They argue that class-based analysis of society is outdated and that the world is far more complex than the situation that faced Marx and Engels. Because of this, the idea of class struggle and class consciousness is intellectually bankrupt