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Quotes About Working class

The real fans of football come from the working class. Now they cannot afford to come and watch the game.
~ Eric Cantona
The working class positively benefited from Hitler`s rule, under which the standard of living was raised till it became the highest in Europe.
~ Unknown
My father was a real interesting cat. He fixed conveyor belts for a living. He was a blue-collar worker, but at night he dressed like a player.
~ Unknown
Lots of hardworking, blue-collar people across America have lost their jobs since the 1990s - victims of the globalist policies of the Bushes and Clintons.
~ Roger Stone
Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class.
~ Martin Cruz Smith
There are only two roads, victory for the working class, freedom, or victory for the fascists which means tyranny. Both combatants know what's in store for the loser.
~ Buenaventura Durruti
And middle-class women, although taught to value established forms, are in the same position as the working class: neither can use established forms to express what the forms were never intended to express (and may very well operate to conceal).
~ Joanna Russ
The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.
~ Vladimir Lenin
Why should we bother to reply to Kautsky? He would reply to us, and we would have to reply to his reply. There's no end to that. It will be quite enough for us to announce that Kautsky is a traitor to the working class, and everyone will understand everything.
~ Vladimir Lenin
We must also note that Engels is most definite in calling universal suffrage an instrument of bourgeois rule. Universal suffrage, he says, obviously summing up the long experience of German Social-Democracy, is "the gauge of the maturity of the working class. It cannot and never will be anything more in the present-day state."
~ Vladimir Lenin
Social-Democracy leads the struggle of the working class not only for better terms for the sale of labour power, but also for the abolition of the social system which compels the propertyless to sell themselves to the rich
~ Vladimir Lenin
Os escravos assalariados de hoje, em conseqüência da exploração capitalista, vivem por tal forma acabrunhados pelas necessidades e pela miséria, que nem tempo têm pa-ra se ocupar de "democracia" ou de "política"; no curso normal e pacífico das coisas a maioria da população se encontra afastada da vida política e social.
~ Vladimir Lenin
Only the proletariat—by virtue of the economic role it plays in large-scale production—is capable of being the leader of all the working and exploited people, whom the bourgeoisie exploit, oppress and crush, often not less but more than they do the proletarians, but who are incapable of waging an independent struggle for their emancipation.
~ Vladimir Lenin
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
...the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle for democracy.
~ Karl Marx
Catholic and Italian boys whose fathers worked on the docks at the port
~ Philip Roth
The hardworking poor should receive wages and bread.
~ Rudiger Safranski
I grew up working class in Atlanta.
~ Killer Mike
Being working class, my parents thought, 'Ian's going to uni, the first in the family,' and I'd do dentistry or accountancy. I was going to do accountancy; then I got a C in Economics and thought, 'Why am I doing this?' The only thing I was interested in was books and literature.
~ Ian Rankin
In England we only make films about the working class or the aristocracy.
~ Nigel Cole
While some distance from the wide sea, smoke rises from factories and Karl Marx does his usual work.
~ Unknown
Socialism is basically a call for greater equality in political power and the distribution of goods. It managed to rally much of the working class behind it.
~ Unknown
My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.
~ Dan Stevens
The Social-Democratic Federation took part in all the political and economic struggles of the English working class; it took pains to bring Socialist views home to them, not only through agitation and propaganda, but also by actions.
~ Karl Radek