Noun
class consciousness (plural class consciousnesses)
(Marxism, social sciences) An individual's awareness of their relative place within the class system of society.
Antonym: false consciousness
The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called trade union consciousness dominates the working class. I would call it elementary class consciousness of the working class. Ernest Mandel
You need a vanguard organization in order to overcome the dangerous potential brought about by the uneven development of class militancy and class consciousness. Ernest Mandel
It's true: one of the things that I've always thought about American society is that you never get the sort of natural politicisation of class consciousness that you would get in the United Kingdom or even in Australia. Peter Carey
You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected. Ernest Mandel
No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Class consciousness - yes, the theory is all too true. But there is a third class, that of Socrates, that of the inexorable. Ludwig Hohl