Class Is Defined By Power Not Income

I was reading some Labour Party websites yesterday concerning the detachment of the supposedly people's party from the people, particularly its base support, the working class. There seemed to be some confusion as to who the working class are. Some writers talked of the 'new' working class, a sort of rainbow coalition fantasy as opposed to the crusty indigenous 'male' working class.Other writers talked of money and attitudes.
Noticeably, none referred to the basis of class - power.
A working class person goes through most of his or her life receiving orders.
It is as simple as that, really.
Those who give orders - teachers, managers in bureaucracies, social workers, and so on can never really be 'left-wing', as they like to believe. Theirs is a socialism that dispenses with the people. Their experience is one of being integrated into the hierarchy. They can only see life (and here lies the root of their sympathy for Islam) as domination and submission.
The experience of corporals and overseers, not to mention that of the officer class and the generals, is quite different to that of the foot soldiers.
It is power, not wealth, which defines who is 'poor', though often enough, after the pious righteous moral thieves have done, having stripped us of our dignity and our autonomy, we are materially poor too.