Marx’s class-in-itself versus class-for-itself maps onto politicized identity

Evidence

To borrow from Marxian terminology, it is politicized collective identity that turns the social group from “a group of itself’ (“Klasse an sich”) into “a group of and for itself’ (“Klasse an und für sich”) in the political arena (see Esser, 1993, p. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4417

Categorization

• DEFINE: Borrows Marx’s distinction: a group becomes politically self-aware only when its members consciously act for it.
• XREF: connects to: Class difference persists even as class consciousness converges — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 193; Neoliberalism replaces class analysis with a cynical catechism of limitless self-transformation — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 332; the MOC “The Forge and the Other: How Power, Discourse, and Encounter Cast the Self”