Class struggle becomes political and transgresses the narrow boundaries of the factory, as long as capital and state co-ordinate their power, though in different and sophisticated modes. Class struggle will differ according to various forms of political power, state development, party mechanisms, and most important, the level of social resistance and social movements.
• American exceptionalism

Class Conciousness
Marx introduces the term of class – consciousness, as opposed to individual consciousness. Marx points to the potential of class consciousness as opposed to the rise of individual freedom. Both poles develop self – awareness of their differing role in the social network.

However, the development of consciousness as a class, on behalf of the working class is an exceptionally contradictory process. Class fragmentation emerges as equally as class unification.
• Class in its self
• Class for its self

Rise of Trade Unions, but also of a silent resistance, working  - class culture and values, negation of rationalisation of money – making gain through gambling, development of alternatives and other attitudes towards life and its pleasures.
Rise of conflict and labour movement.

Forms of class struggle become explicit and implicit within the political, economical and social processes.