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Class war   /klæs wɔr/   Listen
Class war

noun
1.
Conflict between social or economic classes (especially between the capitalist and proletariat classes).  Synonyms: class struggle, class warfare.






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"Class war" Quotes from Famous Books



... a class war had become the war of all classes against autocracy. Of course, in such a merging of classes there necessarily appeared many shadings and degrees of interest. Not all the social groups and classes were as radical in their demands as ...
— Bolshevism - The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy • John Spargo

... MR. MARTIN,— ... It does not seem to me that this country will rise to a class war. We have too many farmers and small householders and women—put the accent on the women. They are the conservatives. Until a woman is starving, she does not grow Red, unless she is without a husband or babies and has a lot of money that ...
— The Letters of Franklin K. Lane • Franklin K. Lane

... fundamental economic theories of modern Socialism were clearly expounded. When Marx was no more than ten years old we find O.A. Brownson, editor of the Boston Quarterly Review, vigorously preaching here in America the theory of the class war, the abolition of the wage system, and the necessity for a triumph of the proletariat. We find such men as Thomas Skidmore, R.L. Jennings, and L. Byllesby preaching thoroughgoing Socialism. In 1829 ...
— The Jew and American Ideals • John Spargo

... decent war? Two young subs in France, Soldiers of Fortune (so-called), would like to get in touch with anyone thinking of starting a first-class war. Send full particulars and rough strength of enemy to "Warriors," c/o ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 156, April 9, 1919 • Various

... bench and at work. The men, two of them strikers from the corn-cutting machine plant, complained bitterly of the difficulty of supporting their families, and a third man, a fellow with a big black mustache who smoked a pipe, began to repeat some of the axioms in regard to industrialism and the class war he had picked up from the socialist orator. Jim listened for a moment and then, turning, put his thumb on his buttocks and wriggled his fingers. "Oh, hell," he sneered, "what are you fools talking about? You're going to get up a union or get into the socialist ...
— Poor White • Sherwood Anderson



Words linked to "Class war" :   struggle, battle, class struggle, conflict



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