So outdated. Sh111t , Race, ethnicity and even gender are where you see far more inequalities and clear differences. Even regionality is a better discriminator. I know numerous people who are pretty indefinable class wise, including a few on here. Millionaire builders from Essex accents who read the Times. University educated postman with accountant dad, with 3 kids, in rented accommodation (incidentally one of the happiest people I know) Two tube drivers on ?40K plus (both Hammers :)) one was a graphic designer the others a propa east London lad. Marx's insights into the world are interesting and some still relevant (his soulutions foooking nightmare) but his cass analysis was even simplistic then. Add in the Underclass; the public sector (which other that the armed forces and the civil service to administer the Empire) didn't exist in Marx's day so where would all those employess fit in his hierachy. So what are the discriminators? Income? Education (level and or private/state?) Newspaper Readership? Accent? Wether you say dinner or Lunch? Where you go on hooliday? what drugs you take? how you vote? etc etc Lazy labelling, which I've personally enjpyed using numerous times on this forum :)