The only route left to us, as Aristotle knew, is revolt. There is no way within the system to defy the demands of Wall Street, the fossil fuel industry or war profiteers. Our democracy, with faux debates between two corporate parties, is meaningless political theater. Electoral politics, internal security, the judiciary, our universities, the arts and finance, along with nearly all forms of communication, are in corporate hands. The corporate oligarchs have now seized all institutional systems of power in the United States. The sooner we realize that we are locked in deadly warfare with our ruling, corporate elite, the sooner we will realize that these elites must be overthrown. Class struggle defines most of human history.Debs, Statement to the Federal Court, Cleveland, Ohio, upon being convicted of violating the Sedition Act (18 September 1918) I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it and while there is a criminal element, I am of it and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind then that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth.Oliver Cox, Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics (1948), p.The law itself is the instrument of the ruling class hence it is a logical impossibility for another class to assume power legally.James Connolly, Labour in Irish History (1919), p.When questions of “class” interests are eliminated from public controversy a victory is thereby gained for the possessing, conservative class, whose only hope of security lies in such elimination.Buffett made a similar statement in an interview with Lou Dobbs on CNN, : "It's class warfare, my class is winning, but they shouldn't be." Attributed to Warren Buffet by Ben Stein in In Class Warfare, Guess Which Class Is Winning (November 26, 2006), The New York Times.But it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning. Arranged alphabetically by author or source:
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