Class Society Quotes

“It must be confessed that though the plague was chiefly among the poor, yet were the poor the most venturous and fearless of it, and went about their employment with a sort of brutal courage; I must call it so, for it was founded neither on religion or prudence; scarce did they use any caution, but run into any business which they could get employment in, though it was the most hazardous. Such was that of tending the sick, watching houses shut up, carrying infected persons to the pest-house, and, which was still worse, carrying the dead away to their graves.”
― Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year

“The middle and working classes no longer think of the present society as structured around classes. Current opinion holds that the rich are deserving and the poor are not, while an incalculable number of people linger between the categories. A huge section of public opinion in the Western world tends to regard oppression and exploitation as residual abuses, not inherent features of a specific social order. The prevailing society is neither rationally analyzed nor forcefully challenged; it is prudently psychoanalyzed and politely coaxed, as though social problems emerge from erratic individual behavior.”
― Murray Bookchin, The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy

“From the moment that opposing interests and class conflicts exist, there can be no unity of organization, and in spite of the outward appearance of popular sovereignty, the state remains the organ of the economically dominant class and the instrument of defence of its interests.”
― Amadeo Bordiga, The Democratic Principle

“Facebook is a ghetto for the creative part of society. It was created so the rest of society can function without having to pay attention to these weird folks that just keep yapping about stuff no one understands. The journalists and politicians are all on Twitter, producing the sort of soundbites the media love. Hence, the division between facebook and twitter essentially is the new class division, created by the powers-that-be to enforce the world to stay exactly as it is.”
― Martijn Benders

“The first traces of modern humans date back to more than two hundred thousands years ago. But it was only in the last five thousand years (i.e. during less than three percent of human history) that the first class societies arose.”
― Hadas Thier, A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics

“The militant socialists, following the example of the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, have to make a merciless criticism of the economic, political, historical, philosophical, moral and religious ideas of the capitalist class in order to prepare in all spheres of thought the triumph of the new ideology which the proletariat introduces into the world.”
― Paul Lafargue, The Right to Be Lazy

“From the moment that opposing interests and class conflict exist, there can be no unity of organization, and in spite of the outward appearance of popular sovereignty, the state remains the organ of the economically dominant class and the instrument of defence of its interests.”
― Amadeo Bordiga, The Democratic Principle

“From the moment that opposing interests and class conflicts exist, there can be no unity of organization, and in spite of the outward appearance of popular sovereignty, the state remains the organ of the economically dominant class and the instrument of defence of its interests”
― Amadeo Bordiga, The Democratic Principle

“Communism demonstrates that the formal juridical and political application of the democratic and majority principle of all the citizens while society is divided into opposed classes in relation to the economy, is incapable of making the state an organizational unit of the whole society or the whole nation.”
― Amadeo Bordiga, The Democratic Principle