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For Marx, social classes are groups which arise in
the course of the division of labour. Based on developments
in the forces of production, class formation leads to inevitable
conflict, as a result of which one class comes to dominate all
others. Class is thus an identifiable historical actuality;
an objective phenomenon, rooted in the relations of production.
This is what Marx calls "class-in-itself". However precise its
actuality in the relations of production, however, the reality
of a class-in-itself is obscured by false consciousness. It
must achieve true consciousness to become a "class-for-itself".