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class enemies

class enemies is the plural of class enemy.

Meaning of class enemy

Noun

class enemy (plural class enemies)

  1. (Marxism) The enemy of a class, in particular the working class.
    • Like the Communist party before it, the Front National claimed to speak for the “working class”. The class enemy was rebranded from “bourgeoisie” to “elite”, communist xenophobia about “international capital” was supplemented with xenophobia against immigrants, and the proletariat had to ally with...2025 September 13, Simon Kuper, “How Maga rewrote the Little Red Book”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 18

Questions about class enemies

What is class enemies the plural of?
Class enemies is the plural of class enemy.

Words near class enemies in the dictionary

  1. class consciousnesses
  2. class day
  3. class days
  4. class diagram
  5. class diagrams
  6. class enemies
  7. class enemy
  8. class envy
  9. class invariant
  10. class invariants
  11. class list

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