The working class as the subject of socio-cultural changes

For a long time in the Soviet and post-Soviet historiography the significance of the working class role has been looking through the prism of classical Marxist scheme of political transition, in which this class considered as a higher driving (not leading) power of social changes. Representatives of Marxism have originally seen the working class as the base of transformations in the society. In the modern world the role of the working class in political and social processes has regained its relevance. Modern social transformations, expanding the impact of information technology on the individual and the withdrawal of major ideological systems of the world politics require a significant change in the approach to the analysis of the main participants of socio-cultural changes. Under these conditions the working class could become a carrier of new samples needed for uniting the society and combating destructive processes and anomie. It is necessary to move away from the legacy of Marxism in understanding the working class as the carrier of social revolutions and coups. Social, economic, professional values of workers could help to save the social structure. An introduction of the working class to the ever-changing process allows us to assume their new resources maintaining social and political stability.