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One interesting class I heard named at the conference was "graduates without a future". This class was the engine of the 2011 occupy protests, for example. Usually you'd think university education puts someone solidly outside of the revolutionary class, but perhaps student debt + shit job prospects would be enough to build solidarity.
Plenty of revolutionaries have come from the privileged classes, ever since the beginning. They just need to be committed enough (or to have made a substantial break with their former world) to orient their life around revolutionary purposes.