>>158259>class is defined by the control over the means of production, not job occupationWhat is your point? Academics and other professional layers live off the rents of the bourgeoisie get from surplus. Their function is to maintain and reproduce current class relations.
>proles can have false consciousnessYes, proletarians can have false consciousness. That’s why Marxists engage in political education and agitation—to raise class consciousness and organize independent of the bourgeoisie.
>Engels was a bourgeoisWhat matters is not birth, but one’s political alignment, material interests, and role in the class struggle. His writings, actions, and funding of the workers’ movement prove that.