Class Quote by Karl Marx

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

The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

“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

“What is good for the ruling class, is alleged to be good for the whole of society with which the ruling class identifies itself.”

— Friedrich Engels

But the more these conscious illusions of the ruling class are shown to be false and the less they satisfy common sense, the more…

— Karl Marx

There is a close connection between socio-political development, the struggle between social classes and the history of ideologies. In general, intellectual movements closely reflect…

— Kwame Nkrumah

The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life, imposed by…

— George Orwell

There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We…

— Michel Foucault

The ruling class is smarter than you, and they're more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain. Because if…

— Al Lewis

From the moment when a subordinate class becomes really independent and dominant, calling into being a new type of State, the need arises concretely,…

— Antonio Gramsci

The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the most prominent men of a ruled class, the more solid and dangerous its rule.

— Karl Marx

The dominance of [an ideology] is shown by the fact that the dominated classes live their conditions of political existence through the forms of…

— Nicos Poulantzas