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Yeah clearly ChatGPT hallucinated a term that sounded logical because smashing designations together is something that frequently occurs. However in this precise case, the fusion of terms don't work. The bot is unable to use the Marxist framework properly, revealing further that large language models are just that : models trained on large samples of language, that put words together because they look coherent when compared to the language sample.
Class society has an infinitely complex structure that cannot be fully described, this is why we use dialectical materialism in opposition to vulgar materialism that finds itself unable to grasp individual contradiction within a general description of a complex system.
Basically, the reduction that is the struggle between the owning and dispossessed classes is a useful way to describe a society where actually a lot of individuals operate in a grey area between actual labor and exploitation from relationship of ownership, in widely different manners