>>10923188The definition of "working class" in western marxism changed following WW2.
In classical Marxism, the "working class" was defined as the class of wage labourers.
That this class would overthrow the existing social order and implement communism was a prediction.
In modern "Cultural Marxism", the "working class" is defined as the class that will overthrow the existing social order and implement communism.
That this class was once assumed to be class of wage labourers is seen as an error on the part of Marx.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Horkheimer>Horkheimer and Adorno thus became increasingly pessimistic with regards to the working class's ability to overthrow capitalism ... Horkheimer did not conduct empirical research on capitalism and its crises ... the hierarchical nature of the international division of labor, the organization of internationalizing capitalism in a system of nation-states, the origins of imperialism and inter-imperial rivalries, or such ... For Horkheimer, the working class had been a revolutionary subject only in the abstract ... [it] was essentially an empty placeholder for the subject which would overthrow an economic and social system which they considered wrong. If it failed to live up to its expectations, then it could easily be replaced by another subject of revolution — or the conclusion that there was no way out (of capitalism). 