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“Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both.”

Political Lines Mistake Class Economic Organization Organized Capitalist Working Class

Book:Writings of Daniel DeLeon: A Collection of Essays by One of the Founders of American Revolutionary Socialism

Source: Writings of Daniel DeLeon: A Collection of Essays by One of the Founders of American Revolutionary Socialism

“I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.”

Born Class Raised Paris Working Class Suburbs Born And Raised

Author:Olivier Martinez

“I have a lot of rage about things that didn't happen to me, tied up with watching an immigrant, working-class father struggle to make his way through the world - and seeing how society was modeled to keep him in his place.”

World Way Happens Father Class Struggle Seeing Rage Immigrants Tied Working Class Tied Up

Author:Dennis Lehane

“Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938.”

Firsts Long Has Beens Facts Law Pay Class Periods Increase Raises Decades Minimum Working Class Minimum Wage

Author:Bill Pascrell

“I come from a working-class background in Queens, New York.”

Class New York Backgrounds Queens Working Class

Author:Amy Ryan

“I'm not normally a jewelry person. I'm supposed to be a working class champion and all, and I don't like to rub my success in people's faces.”

People Persons Faces Class Supposed To Be Champion Working Class Jewelry

Author:Bubba Sparxxx

“I'm working class, and want people to know I'm not unintelligent and all the other cliches that come with it.”

People Knows Want Class Working Class Cliche Unintelligent

Author:Timothy Spall

“My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position.”

Parent Class Middle Position Backgrounds Combination Odd Middle Class Privileged Working Class Upbringing

Author:Denise Mina

“In the 'Garnethill' trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O'Donnell's dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and her brother did law, but no-one ever thinks they're middle-class - they're just working class because they speak with accents.”

People Thinking Art Law Speak Forget Class Middle Brother Dad Journalist Middle Class Accents Working Class Art History Trilogies

Author:Denise Mina

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

Real Political Social Process Class Working Class Differentiation

Book:Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

Source: Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

“On the contrary, history generally confirms that the more conscious and the better you are organized in vanguard organizations, the more constructively you operate in the mass organizations of the working class.”

Class Mass Conscious Organization Contrary Organized Working Class Vanguard

Author:Ernest Mandel

“The more workers you have in your organization, the better you are implanted in the working class, the more likely you are to come up with the concrete problems of the class.”

Problem Class Organization Workers Come Up Concrete Working Class

Book:Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

Source: Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

“The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called trade union consciousness dominates the working class. I would call it elementary class consciousness of the working class.”

Real Consciousness Class Movement Draws Trade Unions Historical Conclusion Day To Day Working Class Day Life Trade Unions Day To Day Life Class Consciousness

Book:Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

Source: Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

“I want to stress, this is the experience-growing up in a working-class family-that defined me and continues to define me. It's the core of my being. And it explains, incidentally, a good deal about my love of America.”

Want America Deals Class Growing Up Growing Stress Core Defined Working Class

Author:Geoff Dyer

“The really successful work in England tends to be working-class writers telling working-class stories. The film industry has been slow to wake up to that, for a variety of reasons. It still shocks me how few films are written or made in England about working-class life, given that those are the people who go to movies.”

People Has Beens Made Stills Reason Stories Film Given Class Successful Written Industry England Wake Up Variety Shock Working Class Film Industry Successful Work

Author:Stephen Daldry

“At Leeds the idea of an international labour organization appeared in a trade-union text which also drew attention to the danger to the working classes inherent in the existence of international capitalist competition.”

Ideas Existence Attention Class Danger Organization Trade Competition Unions International Labour Capitalist Inherent Working Class Trade Unions Leeds

Author:Leon Jouhaux

“When I was a kid, I was watching the movies my parents wanted to watch. I came from a working class family, not specifically educated, so we were watching popular movies. My dad liked cowboy movies, so we were watching cowboy movies. Some of them were amazing. It’s a genre of movie I like very much.”

Kids Wanted Parent Class Watches Dad My Dad Educated Genre Working Class Cowboy Cowboy Movie Popular Movie

Author:Olivier Martinez

“Where I'm from is like 'Hustle Flow' versus '8 Mile.' It's that really grimy, box-Chevy, dope-boy, working-class music.”

Class Boys Flow Boxes Miles Working Class Versus Hustle Dope Chevy 8 Mile

Author:Yelawolf

“It's partly the Southernization of America, in that the Southern working-class version of redneck is becoming the national version, and it's good-natured, it has humor and, in some ways, it's a performance.”

Way America Class Becoming Performances Versions Southern Working Class Parting Redneck

Author:Robert Charles Wilson

“Apparently, there is no bad economic turn a conservative cannot do unto his buddy in the working class, as long as cultural solidarity has been cemented over a beer.”

Long Has Beens Turns Class Economic Conservative Beer Solidarity Working Class Buddy

Book:What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America

Source: What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America

“I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.”

Ideas Helping Wanted Values Parent Class Figures College Months Six Saving No Idea Expensive Help Me Working Class Six Months Savings Tuition Stanford Going To College College Tuition

Author:Steve Jobs

“The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.”

Heaven Born Class Meetings Privilege Likes Hiding Working Class Englishmen Hiding Place

Author:Matthew Arnold

“There's no hall of fame for that working class hero, no statue carved out of stone. And his greatest reward is the love of a woman and his children.”

Children Work Class Hero Fame Stones Rewards Halls Working Class Statues Hall Of Fame Working Class Hero

Author:Alan Jackson

“I had great memories of growing up in a working class estate. I remember it being sunny all the time. So we're putting that on screen. It's not people wallowing in degradation.”

People Remember Memories Class Growing Up Growing Screens Estates Working Class Sunny Degradation Wallowing Great Memories

Author:Ricky Gervais

“The terrible thing in England is if you interview a thousand people, five hundred of them will talk like they're going into a Guy Ritchie movie and the other five hundred will be Mr. Darcy. So we had to find cool, working class kids with no profile who could be John Travolta and James Dean and people like that.”

People Ifs Kids Guy Class Five Terrible Thousand Hundred England Interviews Working Class Terrible Things Profile Dean Darcy

Author:Ricky Gervais

“The working class must break up, smash the "ready-made state machinery," and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it.”

Made States Class Break Ready Working Class Machinery

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“When we say "the state," the state is We, it is we, it is the proletariat, it is the advanced guard of the working class.”

States Class Working Class Proletariat

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“The working class must control the factories and the country”

Country Class Factories Working Class

Author:Alan Woods

“I have that working class fear of having nothing. I've always got one eye on what's in the bank.”

Eye Class Working Class

Author:Jasper Carrott

“Marx's Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for the working class, but the working man respects the bourgeoisie and wants to be a bourgeoisie. Marx never got a hold of him for a moment. It was the revolting sons of the bourgeoisie itself, like myself, that painted the flag red. The middle and upper classes are the revolutionary element in society. The proletariat is the conservative element.”

“The custom of procuring abortions has reached such appalling proportions in America as to be beyond belief... So great is the misery of the working classes that seventeen abortions are committed in every one hundred pregnancies.”

America Belief Class Hundred Misery Committed Proportion Abortion Customs Pregnancy Working Class Seventeen

Author:Emma Goldman

“It appears then, that capitalist production comprises conditions independent of good or bad will, conditions which permit the working-class to enjoy that relative prosperity only momentarily, and at that always only as the harbinger of a coming crisis.”

Enjoy Class Conditions Independent Crisis Prosperity Productions Permit Relative Capitalist Working Class Harbinger

Book:Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: .. Karl Marx: Capital vol.II

Source: Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: .. Karl Marx: Capital vol.II

“Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth,it buys as long as it has the means to buy.”

Mean Long Hands Class Mouths Working Class

Book:Capital: The process of circulation of capital

Source: Capital: The process of circulation of capital

“Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.”

Thinking Looks Views Class Middle Complicated Middle Class Working Class Upper Class Upper Middle Class

Author:Ed Miliband

“Owners of capital will stimulate working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks which will have to be nationalized and State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism.”

States House Class Technology Credit Debt Communism Expensive Owners Pushing Goods Working Class Unbearable Bankruptcy

Author:Karl Marx

“There are simply no public figures today who so challenge the elite business and government establishment and so champion the working class as Jimmy Hoffa did almost daily and with arrogance.”

Government Today Challenges Class Figures Champion Arrogance Establishment Elites Working Class Jimmy Public Figures Jimmy Hoffa

Author:Jimmy Hoffa

“My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.”

Mother Father Community Class Teacher Backgrounds Working Class Organizer

Author:Chris Hayes

“The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class.”

States Political United Class United States Development Late Mass Organization Working Class Retarded Retard

Author:C. L. R. James

“I liked work shoes and big, working-class hands. The stars would come and go, but the crew on my movies was my extended family.”

Hands Bigs Stars Class Shoes Crew Working Class Comes And Goes Extended Family

Author:Shirley Temple

“I didn't like the King's Cross world: it was grimy and dirty. I always envisioned myself in much more romantic and grand surroundings. I never really thought that I belonged to the working-class area at all.”

World Class Kings Areas Crosses Dirty Working Class Surroundings

Author:Kenneth Williams

“I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.”

Knows Writing Class Grew Grew Up Working Class

Author:Andrea Arnold

“The working classes may be injuriously degraded and oppressed in three ways: 1st - When they are neglected in infancy 2nd - When they are overworked by their employer, and are thus rendered incompetent from ignorance to make a good use of high wages when they can procure them. 3rd - When they are paid low wages for their labour.”

Way May Use Three Class Ignorance Lows Paid Labour Oppressed Working Class Wages Employers Neglected Incompetent Three Ways

Author:Robert Owen

“I sometimes wish the trade unionists who work in the mass media, those who are writers and broadcasters and secretaries and printers and lift operators of Thomson House would remember that they too are members of our working class movement and have a responsibility to see that what is said about us is true.”

Said Sometimes Remember House Wish Responsibility Class Media Movement Members Mass Trade Lifts Secretary Working Class Mass Media Operators Broadcasters Printer

Author:Tony Benn

“There's a place in the world for the angry young man With his working class ties and his radical plans He refuses to bend, he refuses to crawl He's always at home with his back to the wall And he's proud of his scars and the battles he's lost And he struggles and bleeds as he hangs on the cross And he likes to be known as the angry young man.”

Men World Home Young Lost Known Class Struggle Plans Wall Proud Battle Crosses Angry Refuse Likes Radical Ties Young Man Scar Working Class Places In The World

Author:Billy Joel

“The self-discipline of the Social Democracy is not merely the replacement of the authority of bourgeois rulers with the authority of a socialist central committee. The working class will acquire the sense of the new discipline, the freely assumed self-discipline of the Social Democracy, not as a result of the discipline imposed on it by the capitalist state, but by extirpating, to the last root, its old habits of obedience and servility.”

“What would happen if capital succeeded in smashing the Republic of Soviets? There would set in an era of the blackest reaction in all the capitalist and colonial countries, the working class and the oppressed peoples would be seized by the throat, the positions of international communism would be lost.”

Ifs Country Happens Would Be Lost Class Position International Reactions Communism Eras Republic Throat Capitalist Oppressed Working Class Smashing

Author:Joseph Stalin

“Capitalism cannot survive without a working class, while the working class can flourish a lot more freely without capitalism.”

Class Capitalism Working Class

Author:Terry Eagleton

“Cockburn's personal history links him to the politics of the Communist Party, and there are still moments in his writing - debating the number of people estimated to have perished in Stalin's gulags, claiming that 'the Brezhnev years were a Golden Age for the Soviet working class', when aspects of his father's convictions can be glimpsed.”

“the principles of political economy have elevated the working class above the place they ever filled before.”

Political Class Principles Economy Filled Working Class Political Economy

Book:Speeches on Questions of Public Policy

Source: Speeches on Questions of Public Policy

“Aline and I have travelled a very long, very hard road together, from our working class homes in rural Quebec to the palaces of London, Paris, Moscow, and Beijing. Politics was the route, public service the reward.”

Long Hard Home Together Class Rewards London Paris Working Class Routes Palaces Public Service Moscow Quebec Beijing

Book:My Years as Prime Minister

Source: My Years as Prime Minister

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