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title: "19 Capitalist Class Quotes by 14 authors"
description: "Browse 19 Capitalist Class quotes by 14 authors. Discover the best Capitalist Class sayings and thoughts."
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> [The clergy, no less than the capitalist class, lives on the backs of the people, profits from the degradation, the ignorance and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rosa-luxemburg/the-clergy-no-less-than-the-capitalist-class-lives-on-the-backs-of/)

[Rosa Luxemburg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rosa-luxemburg/)

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> [The capitalist class shoots down mothers and children. It stops at nothing, no matter how monstrous, to prevent the organization of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-capitalist-class-shoots-down-mothers-and-children-it-stops-at/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Individual capitalists, in short, behave in such a way as to threaten the conditions that permit the reproduction of the capitalist class.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-harvey/individual-capitalists-in-short-behave-in-such-a-way-as-to-threaten/)

[David Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-harvey/)

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> [The capitalist class rules but does not govern: it contents itself with ruling the government.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-kautsky/the-capitalist-class-rules-but-does-not-govern-it-contents-itself/)

[Karl Kautsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-kautsky/)

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> [Yes, friends, governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-connolly/yes-friends-governments-in-capitalist-society-are-but-committees-of/)

[James Connolly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-connolly/)

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> [In fact, the capitalist class in the '50s was sort of part of a social contract. It was part of the tenor…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/in-fact-the-capitalist-class-in-the-50s-was-sort-of-part-of-a-social/)

[Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/)

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> [The capitalist class is interested in keeping the workingmen divided among themselves. Hence it foments race and religious animosities that come down…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-de-leon/the-capitalist-class-is-interested-in-keeping-the-workingmen-divided/)

[Daniel De Leon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-de-leon/)

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> [If the workers are organized, all they have to do is to put their hands in their pockets and they have got…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-haywood/if-the-workers-are-organized-all-they-have-to-do-is-to-put-their/)

[Bill Haywood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-haywood/)

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> [Capitalism will never fall on its own. It will have to be pushed. The accumulation of capital will never cease. It will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-harvey/capitalism-will-never-fall-on-its-own-it-will-have-to-be-pushed-the/)

[David Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-harvey/)

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> [You build movements and keep people in a struggle when it feels productive. Anti-capitalists have typically been the people in movements who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cynthia-kauffman/you-build-movements-and-keep-people-in-a-struggle-when-it-feels/)

[Cynthia Kauffman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cynthia-kauffman/)

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> [As a rule, large capitalists are Republicans and small capitalists are Democrats, but workingmen must remember that they are all capitalists, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugene-v-debs/as-a-rule-large-capitalists-are-republicans-and-small-capitalists-are/)

[Eugene V. Debs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugene-v-debs/)

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> [ ...it was always our view that in order to attain this \[proletarian revolution\] and the other far more important aims of the… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-engels/it-was-always-our-view-that-in-order-to-attain-this-proletarian/)

[Friedrich Engels](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-engels/)

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> [Lincoln was the spokesman of the rising capitalist class of the North, who viewed the emancipation of Negro slaves as indispensable to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-philip-randolph/lincoln-was-the-spokesman-of-the-rising-capitalist-class-of-the-north/)

[A. Philip Randolph](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-philip-randolph/)

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> [The Republican and Democratic parties, or, to be more exact, the Republican-Democratic party, represent the capitalist class in the class struggle. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugene-v-debs/the-republican-and-democratic-parties-or-to-be-more-exact-the/)

[Eugene V. Debs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugene-v-debs/)

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> [“In face of the facts that modern man lives more wretchedly than the cave-man, and that his producing power is a thousand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-london/in-face-of-the-facts-that-modern-man-lives-more-wretchedly-than-the/)

[Jack London](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-london/)

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> [“The press of the United States? It is a parasitic growth that battens on the capitalist class. Its function is to serve…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-london/the-press-of-the-united-states-it-is-a-parasitic-growth-that-battens/)

[Jack London](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-london/)

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> [“Washington was the richest man of his day. Whatever he did to help the business interests of the country helped him more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/washington-was-the-richest-man-of-his-day-whatever-he-did-to-help-the/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“This left, which strangely echoes a libertarian and even neoliberal ethic of ant-statism, is nurtured intellectually by thinkers such as Michel Foucault…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-harvey/this-left-which-strangely-echoes-a-libertarian-and-even-neoliberal/)

[David Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-harvey/)

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> [“The Capitalist Class knows that what brings on the increased supply is not immigration so much, but the improved and ever improving…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/danie-deleon/the-capitalist-class-knows-that-what-brings-on-the-increased-supply/)

[Danie DeLeon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/danie-deleon/)

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                        "text": "“The Capitalist Class knows that what brings on the increased supply is not immigration so much, but the improved and ever improving machinery, held as private property. For every immigrant by whom the labor market is overstocked, it is overstocked by ten workingmen in the country whom privately owned machinery displaces. The Capitalist Class is full well aware that if this fact be known the conclusion would leap to sight ; to wit, that the solution oi\" the Labor Problem is simply the public ownership of the machine. If fifty men, working ten hours a day, can, with improved machinery, produce as much as one hundred did before without such improved machinery, the publicly owned machine would not, as the privately owned machine does, throw out fifty men; it would throw out five of the former ten hours of work. It is clear as day to the Capitalist Class that it must raise dust over this fact so as to conceal it; and no better means to this end is offered than the fomenting of the plausible delusion that the evil lies in immigration. Anti-immigration laws are the fruit of these two purpose. Such laws kill two flies with one slap ; they draw attention away from the nerve that aches, and simultaneously they help to set the workers of the land in racial and creed hostility against the newcomers, who, of course, the Capitalist Class itself sees to shall not be lacking. Obviously, it is in the interest of the Working Class that this brace of fatal delusions be dispelled from their minds. What does the Labor Leader do? He helps nurse both delusions.”",
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