It elevates tiny differences of background and manner into huge generalisations about class solidarity.

It was the zenith of communality, the apogee of class solidarity.

Party membership has ceased to be a symbol of class solidarity or personal identity, valued by its holder as a statement of status and position.

Birth determined an individual's social position, and shared values and intermarriage reinforced class solidarity.

As secularists, they hoped to transcend communal divisions through class solidarity.