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Revision as of 00:04, 9 December 2001 by Taw (talk | contribs) (instead of stub from "class" article, something useful)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)A group of people that have similar social and economical status.
At various times division of society into classes had various level of support from law.
On one opposite of this were old Indian classes - castes, which one could neither enter after birth,
nor leave. On the other are classes in modern Western societies, which are very fluid and have little support from law.
Marxists tried to explain the history in terms of War of classes, between
a rich, priviledged class that possessed Means of production and poor unpriviledged class,
that actually produced, but fruits of which work were being mostly taken by members of priviledged class.
For other meaning of word class, see Class.