Definitions

class consciousness

NOUN

class distinction

Synonyms

WEAK

class difference class hatred class identity class politics class prejudice class struggle class war discrimination snobbery

Example Sentences

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We know nothing about the other gladiators, or how they got to the point where a boring speech was enough to suddenly awaken their class consciousness, but at least we know how Hanno got here.

From Salon • Dec. 7, 2024

Generally, Marxism relied on the proletariat, the industrial workers in the factories, gaining class consciousness.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

The ideas about class consciousness aren’t anything that a college freshman isn’t already well-versed in.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 12, 2022

I would add one more reason for the inspectors’ race-blind sense of class consciousness that belies some other research about implicit racism: They spend most of their time looking at buildings.

From Slate • Jul. 11, 2022

It should, consequently, increase the amount of economic independence enjoyed by the average laborer, diminish his "class consciousness" by doing away with his class grievances, and intensify his importance to himself as an individual.

From The Promise of American Life by Croly, Herbert David