Classless Society Quotes

• In the next ten years we will have to continue to make changes which will make the whole of this country a genuinely classless society.

  John Major

  Country, Years, Next

  "Today" Newspaper, November 24, 1990.

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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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• By 'socialism' I mean a classless society in which the State has disappeared, production is cooperative, and no man has political or economic power over another. The touchstone would be the extent to which each individual could develop his own talents and personality.

  Dwight Macdonald

  Mean, Men, Personality

  Dwight Macdonald (1953). “The Root is Man: Two Essays in Politics”

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• The masters thought they were loved until one day one of their favorites farted loudly while serving dinner and the next day was gone. The very first manifestation of the classless society is the disappearance of the servant class.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Class, Next Day, One Day

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter 2, p. 60, 1977.

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• It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Class, Irony, Communism

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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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• Socialism means slavery.

  Lord Acton

  Mean, Eugenics, Political

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• Classless society is the dream of people with no class.

  Robert Zend

  Dream, Class, People

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• With all of its false assumptions and evil methods, communism grew as a protest against the hardships of the underprivileged. Communism in theory emphasized a classless society, and a concern for social justice, though the world knows from sad experience that in practice it created new classes and a new lexicon of injustice.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Practice, Class

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

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• For instance, our country wanted to effect a revolution, and did effect it, and now we are building a new classless society.

  Joseph Stalin

  Country, Revolution, Building

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• The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Struggle, Sleep, Anxiety

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays”, p.65, Atlantic Books Ltd

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