This wouldn’t work today as, often, craftsmen are paid more and are higher on social ladder than clerks. How would you adjust the criteria for modern-day working class check?

  • What? I understand this doesn’t really matter for your question but bolsheviks did not… A giant chunk of the Party was intelligentsia, just see Lenin’s biography. IDK where did you find that BS, bolsheviks didn’t shoot people left and right.