As contemporaries, Shin and Kim Jong Eun personify the…

“To identify and isolate his perceived political enemies, Kim Il Sung created a neofeudal, blood-based pecking order in 1957. The government classified and, to…

— Blaine Harden

The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat.

— Karl Marx

“The United States, which idealized itself as a classless society in which everyone had the opportunity to get ahead, had in fact fallen behind…

— Jane Mayer

“They yearn for the security of a lost age. Just as America believed it had entered a post-racial era, Britain persuaded itself it had…

— Edward Luce

By 'socialism' I mean a classless society in which the State has disappeared, production is cooperative, and no man has political or economic power…

— Dwight Macdonald

“To start with, education must be egalitarian and universal, unlike previous education, which was feudal and elitist: “So there is nothing left for us…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

Otherwise we get off the track and we do not fulfil the historical role which we want to fulfil: to help the masses, the…

— Ernest Mandel

For instance, our country wanted to effect a revolution, and did effect it, and now we are building a new classless society.

— Joseph Stalin

The masters thought they were loved until one day one of their favorites farted loudly while serving dinner and the next day was gone.…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“The fall of the protecting class walls transformed the slumbering majorities behind all parties into one great unorganized, structureless mass of furious individuals who…

— Hannah Arendt

It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.

— Anonymous

People often think of America as a classless society, but, of course, that isn't true. Within immigrant communities, there's an enormous distinction of class,…

— Min Jin Lee

With all of its false assumptions and evil methods, communism grew as a protest against the hardships of the underprivileged. Communism in theory emphasized…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Ideas about the withering away of the family found strong parallels in the political commitment to the withering away of law. The great majority…

— Wendy Z. Goldman

In the next ten years we will have to continue to make changes which will make the whole of this country a genuinely classless…

— John Major