1841 26 June 3/5 Shall we ever have enough of class-rule under Whig management.
1864 tr. K. Marx in (1935) 39 The struggle for the emancipation of the working classes means not a struggle for class privileges and monopolies, but for equal rights and duties, and the abolition of all class rule.
1959 Spring 1/1 A socialist commitment, a conscious rejection of all that springs from class rule.
2001 E. Bolsinger ii. iv. 69 It has been said that Lenin determines the function of the state as being an instrument of class conflict and class rule.