What we ought to know we never be taught in the classroom.

Starting from the very reasonable, but unfortunately revolutionary concept that social practices which threaten the continuation of life on Earth must be changed, we…

— Judi Bari

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

— Karl Marx

“As a battle cry against feudalism, the demand for democracy had a progressive character. As time went on, however, the metaphysics of natural law…

— Leon Trotsky

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.

— Friedrich Engels

The same old caveman feeling-greed, envy, violence, and mutual hate, which along the way assumed respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, racial struggle, mass struggle,…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“We in the West are accustomed to thinking that humans are all basically the same underneath our different cultural clothing, that the concerns the…

— Philip Cushman

“The class struggle had a just motive, and Socialism at the beginning was in the right. What has happened is that instead of pursuing…

— José Antonio Rivera

“Totalitarian politics—far from being simply antisemitic or racist or imperialist or communist—use and abuse their own ideological and political elements until the basis of…

— Hannah Arendt

The Latin American Left, the criollos, direct descendents of Spaniards, they don't want to accept that they are the whites of Latin America. They…

— Bocafloja

Wherever capitalism appears, in pursuit of its mission of exploitation, there will Socialism, fertilized by misery, watered by tears, and vitalized by agitation be…

— Eugene V. Debs

The Republican and Democratic parties, or, to be more exact, the Republican-Democratic party, represent the capitalist class in the class struggle. They are the…

— Eugene V. Debs

“Have private property, capitalist exploitation and class rule ceased to exist? Or, have the propertied classes in a spell of patriotic fervour declared: in…

— Rosa Luxemburg

“Actual class struggles apart, one of the aesthetic ways you could prove that there was a class system in America was by cogitating on…

— Christopher Hitchens

As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.

— C. L. R. James

“My own outlook and my values had been formed long ago. I did not believe in dividing people into rigid classes, and I did…

— Nien Cheng