“Why, godamit, why did they insist upon confusing the class struggle with the ass struggle, debasing both us and them—all human motives?” — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
In studying food, you embrace everything. Food exposes the long, complex history of the South - slavery, Jim Crow segregation, class struggle,… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Copy Share Image
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any… — Diane Frolov Copy Share Image
“The ruling class is opposed to the lower class—that is, ‘closed’ to the outside—insofar as it ‘excludes, restricts, or makes admission conditional.’… — Franz Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
I think that communism was a major force for violence for more than 100 years, because it was built into its ideology… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Just as you cannot see, at pleasure, with your ears and you cannot, at will, hear with your eyes so too you… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
Occasionally, the whole class struggle may be summed up in the struggle for one word against another word. Certain words struggle amongst… — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
The ruthless economic exploitation and political oppression of the peasants by the landlord class forced them into numerous uprisings against its rule....… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
“Take a little thought experiment. Imagine all the rampage school shooters in Littleton, Colorado; Pearl, Mississippi; Paducah, Kentucky; Springfield, Oregon; and Jonesboro,… — Michael S. Kimmel Copy Share Image
“The history of all hitherto existing society8 is the history of class struggles.” — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Society must show that blue-collar crime never pays. Insidious white-collar crime pays very well, and nothing is declared. It's the same reason… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The imperialists and domestic reactionaries will certainly not take their defeat Lying down and they will struggle to the last ditch. After… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
“The modern proletariat was not led by the social-democracy into class struggle. On the contrary, the international social-democratic movement was called into… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
“The theory of dependence will take the wrong path and lead to deception if the analysis is not put within the framework… — Gustavo Gutiérrez Copy Share Image
Technical Utopias-flying, for example-have been achieved by the new science of nature.The human utopia...a united new humankind living in solidarity and peace,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“They said it was to be a revolutionary house, free of class struggle, no servants’ rooms because they didn’t believe in laundry… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Right now, we are in a peak cycle. There’s tremendous energy out there, directed against the state. It’s not all focused, but… — George L. Jackson Copy Share Image
“Such is the Forgotten Man. He works, he votes, generally he prays—but he always pays—yes, above all, he pays.” — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
However much an ideologue tries to bury [Lenin] beneath a proof by historical analysis, there is always this one man standing their… — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
“The exaggeration of the definiteness and importance of the dividing line between the capitalist class in that sense and the proletariat was… — Joseph Alois Schumpeter Copy Share Image
If the economy is not expanding, the redistribution of income becomes a zero-sum game. And therefore, all the class struggle - and… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
Condemning class struggle does not mean condemning every possible form of social conflict. Such conflicts inevitably arise and Christians must often take… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image