Politics Quote by Geoffrey C. Bowker

“A number of ethical, aesthetic, psychiatric or forensic classfications that are produced by the "institutional sciences",not to mention those produced and inculcated by the…

— Pierre Bourdieu

There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time.

— Ernest Mandel

In all social systems there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life. That is, a class…

— James Henry Hammond

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society,…

— Karl Marx

Throughout this country's history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass.

— Eric Liu

You know, class is like magic. There's nothing there you can point to, it evaporates if you try to analyse it, but it's real…

— Jo Walton

“The philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre has developed a concept of ‘living traditions’, which suggests that traditions are entirely distinct from consensus and a simple repetition…

— Svend Brinkmann

“The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found…

— Industrial Workers of the World

“Work as a metaphysical act, the very “act of being” must be distinguished from labor; work as a remunerative economic invention must be distinguished…

— J. Phillip Johnson

We don't use the term 'working class' here because it's a taboo term. You're supposed to say 'middle class,' because it helps diminish the…

— Noam Chomsky

Several people, not just reviewers, took me to task for writing about what they called the working classes - something I've been doing for…

— Martin Amis

“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