Class Struggle Quotes

• All history has been a history of class struggles, of struggles between exploited and exploiting, between dominated and dominating classes at various stages of social development.

  Friedrich Engels

  Struggle, Class, Development

  "The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document".

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• The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

  Karl Marx

  Philosophical, Struggle, Class

  "Karl Marx as Activist" by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.counterpunch.org. May 7, 2018.

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• Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

  Mao Zedong

  Struggle, Years, Civilization

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.8, China Books

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• People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Love, Positive, Struggle

  Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.102, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat.

  Karl Marx

  Struggle, Class, World

  Letter to Joseph Weydemeyer, 5 Mar. 1852.

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• Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.

  Karl Liebknecht

  Struggle, Class, Democracy

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• The [Communist] Party has one objective: the creation of a socialist economy; and one means: the utilization of the class struggle.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Party, Struggle, Mean

  "Dirty Hands". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 5, sc. 3, 1948.

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• In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.

  Karl Liebknecht

  Believe, Struggle, Mean

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• As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.

  C. L. R. James

  Struggle, Class, Popular Song

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• Just as invasion is the true and tried weapon in the hands of capital against the class struggle, so on the other hand the fearless pursuit of the class struggle has always proven the most effective preventative of foreign invasions.

  Karl Liebknecht

  Struggle, Hands, Class

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• What I did that was new was to prove that the existence of classes is only bound up with particular, historical phases in the development of production; that the class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat; and that dictatorship itself only constitutes the transition to the abolition of all classes and to a classless society.

  Karl Marx

  Struggle, Class, Historical

  Karl Marx (2008). “The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte”, p.139, Wildside Press LLC

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• One of the reasons the rich get richer, the poor get poorer and the middle class struggles in debt is because the subject of money is taught at home, not at school.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Money, Struggle, School

  Robert Kiyosaki (2015). “Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!”, p.24, Robert Kiyosaki

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• There has always been in our national experience a type of mind which elevates hatred to a kind of creed; for this mind, group hatreds take a place in politics similar to the class struggle in some other modern societies.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Struggle, Class, Hatred

  Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.37, Vintage

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• The Republican and Democratic parties, or, to be more exact, the Republican-Democratic party, represent the capitalist class in the class struggle. They are the political wings of the capitalist system and such differences as arise between them relate to spoils and not to principles.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Party, Struggle, Class

  "The Socialist Party and the Working Class". Eugene V. Debs' opening speech as Presidential candidate of the Socialist Party in Indianapolis, Indiana, www.marxists.org. September 1, 1904.

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• The abolition of the class struggle does not mean the abolition of the need to struggle as a principle of development.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Struggle, Mean, Class

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• In the final analysis, national struggle is a matter of class struggle. Among the whites in the United States, it is only the reactionary ruling circles that oppress the black people. They can in no way represent the workers, farmers, revolutionary intellectuals and other enlightened persons who comprise the overwhelming majority of the white people.

  Mao Zedong

  Struggle, Class, Circles

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.12, Lulu.com

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• There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

  Warren Buffett

  War, Winning, Class

  "In Class Warfare, Guess Which Class Is Winning". New York Times Magazine, www.nytimes.com. November 26, 2006.

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• There is no alternative to class struggle.

  Vyacheslav Molotov

  Struggle, Class, Alternatives

  "The Fifty-Year War : Conflict and Strategy in the Cold War" by Norman Friedman, (p. 58), 2007.

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• Our Twentieth Century has proved to be more cruel than preceding centuries, and the first fifty years have not erased all its horrors. Our world is rent asunder by those same old cave-age emotions of greed, envy, lack of control, mutual hostility which have picked up in passing respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, radical conflict, struggle of the masses, trade-union disputes.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Struggle, Class, Our World

  Alexandr Solzhenitsyn's Nobel lecture in literature delivered only to the Swedish Academy, www.nobelprize.org. 1970.

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• Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!

  Karl Marx

  Country, Communication, Winning

  Karl Marx (2013). “The Communist Manifesto”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• We should support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports

  Mao Zedong

  Class, Support, Enemy

  Zedong Mao, Mao Tse-Tung (1965). “Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung”, Pergamon

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• If the economy is not expanding, the redistribution of income becomes a zero-sum game. And therefore, all the class struggle - and it becomes much more vicious.

  Manmohan Singh

  Zero, Struggle, Games

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• The class struggle is precisely that which resolves the contradictions between two opposed classes by abolishing them at the same time that it constitutes and reveals them as classes.

  Monique Wittig

  Struggle, Class, Two

  Monique Wittig (1992). “The Straight Mind: And Other Essays”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• The same old caveman feeling-greed, envy, violence, and mutual hate, which along the way assumed respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, racial struggle, mass struggle, labor-union struggle-are tearing our world to pieces.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Hate, Struggle, Our World

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• Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.

  Amiri Baraka

  Art, Struggle, Class

  "Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas: interviewing amiri baraka". Interview With Sophie Erskine, www.3ammagazine.com.

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