Examples of partial class dissolution?

[u/Tinuchin]

I am already familiar with the processes for state-formation and stratification, the social and historical processes by which societies organize into informal and later coercive hierarchies. I am also familiar with complete class abolition, such as in the various anarchist experiments. However, are there examples in history where these have been partially dissolved? For example, of a stratum in a social or economic hierarchy being dissolved by the institutional power of a higher class, or by changing practical conditions which render certain classes no longer viable? Thank you.

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