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“One casualty of this "increasingly sophisticated" intersectional model, which focuses primarily on the power of discourses, is the neglect of the most materially relevant variable in many of the problems faced by women (and by many racial and sexual minorities): economic class.”

Class Economic Class

Book:Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody

Source: Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody

“When I go to a great movie, I can live somebody else's life a little bit for a while. I can walk in somebody else's shoes. I can see what it feels like to be a member of a different gender, a different race, a different economic class, to live in a different time, to have a different belief.”

Feels Littles I Can Different Belief Bits Walks Race Class Economic Members Little Bit Shoes Gender Different Times Different Races Different Beliefs Economic Class

Author:Roger Ebert

“People, no matter the economic class, find ways to feed their narcissism.”

People Way Matter Class Economic Narcissism Economic Class

Author:Lynne Tillman

“Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime.”

“A day of peace and sharing can lead to greater understanding and cooperation among political parties, faith groups, and people of different races and economic class.”

People Different Political Peace Understanding Party Race Class Greater Groups Economic Cooperation Political Parties Different Races Economic Class

Author:John Conyers

“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.”

“Just as the end goal of socialist revolution was not only the elimination of the economic class privilege but of the economic class distinction itself, so the end goal of feminist revolution must be, ... not just the elimination of the male privilege, but of the sex distinction itself; genital differences between human beings would no longer matter culturally.”

Source: The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution

“The Fed's low-interest policy not only encourages spending and borrowing, it discourages the one thing that best helps people raise themselves into higher economic classes — saving.”

People Helping Interest Class One Thing Economic Policy Higher Lows Raises Spending Saving Feds Discouraging Borrowing Economic Class

Author:Mark Thornton

“We libertarians are not the spokesmen for any ethnic or economic class; we are the spokesmen for all classes, for all of the public; we strive to see all of these groups united, hand-in-hand, in opposition to the plundering and privileged minority that constitutes the rulers of the State.”

States Hands United Class Groups Economic Strive Libertarian Opposition Minorities Rulers Privileged Hand In Hand Economic Class

Author:Murray Rothbard

“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”

“Writing as an art form belongs to all people, regardless of economic class or educational level. . . . A writer is someone who writes.”

People Writing Art Form Levels Class Economic Educational Economic Class

Book:Writing Alone and with Others

Source: Writing Alone and with Others

“Modern capitalism is just as subversive as Marxism. The materialistic view of life on which both systems are based is identical. As long as we only talk about economic classes, profit, salaries, and production, and as long as we believe that real human progress is determined by a particular system of distribution of wealth and goods, then we are not even close to what is essential.”

“The economic class struggle is a struggle against inessanlty intensified exploitation: not only against the brutal material form of exploitation, capitalism's tendency to reduce wages, and against the class 'techniques' for increasing productivity... but also around the question of the technical-social division of labor that prevails om enterprises, and against bourgeois ideology and repression.”

“Every child needs nature. Not just the ones with parents who appreciate nature. Not only those of a certain economic class or culture or set of abilities. Every child.”

Needs Children Certain Culture Parent Ability Class Economic Appreciate Economic Class

Author:Richard Louv