Class is not a fixed, timeless category. Instead, we understand “class” to refer to groups on different sides in the struggles over the means of economic, social, cultural and ideological production. In this way, class as a term both indicates the “genus,”or the general term that describes the way different forces will contest with one another and can refer to the “species” or the specific groups through which that struggle is playing out, for example, the typically cited working classes vs. the capital class. However, there are also national classes, as in the nations of the global south v. the U.S and Western Europe, and people of oppressed nationalities and White settlers within the U.S. and then classes within these groups. So, we understand class as an analytic, a way to understand what is happening around us at a macro scale. This understanding is taken from Dominico Losurdo’s “Class Struggle: A Political and Philosophical History.”