Class Quote by Ernest Mandel

Well, first of all I think that we have to be careful with terms like the working class, obviously. When [Karl] Marx wrote about…

— Bill Ayers

“...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

It is only the working class at the head of the masses, it is only the working class headed by its real Marxist-Leninist party,…

— Enver Hoxha

The whole history of my life, and in essence the whole history of the working class consists of this: that we have lived and…

— Mikhail Kalinin

“A “class analysis” does not necessarily begin and end with Marx’s nineteenth-century version, a version I regard as grossly inaccurate. The class struggle, moreover,…

— Murray Bookchin

Clearly no working class movement ever came about that was able to do what Marx was hoping for.

— Allen W. Wood

Marx's own illusion was to think that the working class movement, which he devoted his life to creating and strengthening, would both be socially…

— Allen W. Wood

The great leaders called the working class first whenever difficult and gigantic tasks arose for the revolution, and ushered in fresh heydays of the…

— Kim Jong-un

“The historical moment when Bolshevism triumphed for itself in Russia and social democracy fought victoriously for the old world marks the inauguration of the…

— Guy Debord

“The primacy of class in politics was challenged during the 1970s and 1980s, in particular, by the rise of the 'new social movements' (including…

— Moya Lloyd

...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

In the various stages of development which the struggle of working class against the bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always and everywhere represent…

— Karl Marx