Class Quote by Enver Hoxha

The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called trade union…

— Ernest Mandel

The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing.

— Karl Marx

“...the working classes—that motor of social transformation which Marx increasingly stipulated for the role of the proletariat; the dispossessed and alienated revolutionary vehicle of…

— J. P. Nettl

In the Conservative Party we have no truck with outmoded Marxist doctrine about class warfare. For us it is not who you are, who…

— Margaret Thatcher

“Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another. If the proletariat during its contest with the…

— Karl Marx

Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement. It is by no means an obvious remedy for the obvious evil which…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

...it was always our view that in order to attain this [proletarian revolution] and the other far more important aims of the future social…

— Friedrich Engels

You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in ''the people.'' One class is no better than another. It must be a…

— D. H. Lawrence

A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect

— Roy Jenkins

“When the workers of a single factory or of a single branch of industry engage in struggle against their employer or employers, is this…

— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

The whole struggle of our Party (and of the working class movement in Europe generally) must be directed against opportunism. The latter is not…

— Vladimir Lenin

Abstract sympathy with the working class as an economic entity is easy, but the feeling can vanish on contact with actual members of the…

— George Packer