Enlightenment and Empowerment

According to many Capitalists, one's awareness that one is part of a larger collective is 'enlightenment', while to the Marxist, that awareness is, Class-Consciousness, and, hence, empowerment. Now, the Enlightenment-Empowerment contrast parallels the one in entailed in Marx's bold statement of purpose--that the task of the Philosopher is to "change" the world, and not merely to "interpret" it. Problematically implicated, and not effectively addressed, in that declaration is Marx's relation to the Working Class. For, since he himself is not a member of that class, the assertion can only be taken as an expression of a member of another class--that of Philosophers, in which case the Enlightenment-Empowerment contrast therein, as well as the revolution of the concept of function of Philosophy, is independent of its correlate in the Working Class. Furthermore, even given the adequate explanatory application of Dialectical Materialism to a Socialist revolution, how that scheme is relevant to Marx's personal transition from an 'interpreter' to a 'changer' is unclear. The significance of these problems to his immediate one of the overcoming of the injustices of Capitalism is that if the transition to Socialism is part of a more comprehensive development, e. g. a mutation of the species as a whole from Homo Sapiens to Homo Faber, then the value of the transition is a contingent one.