class-struggle

I__e always thought that was the lamest argument__hat we need some people to be poor in order to remind the rest of us to be grateful. All that really means is that someone has to suffer poverty so other people can feel better about themselves. What a selfish way to look at the world.

Every era in the continent's vaunted developmental story had its own taxonomy of waste people-unwanted and unsalvageable. Each era had its own means of distancing its version of white trash from the mainstream ideal.

Lajwanti made the cardinal mistake of trying to cross the dividing line that separates the existence of the rich from that of the poor. She made the fatal error of dreaming beyond her means. The bigger the dream, the bigger the disappointment.

You eat the wealthy, sir, and it will be your last meal.

MAMA: You must not dislike people __ause they well off, honey.BENEATHA: Why not? It makes just as much sense as disliking people __ause they are poor, and lots of people do that.

Over time, this growing tendency of like marrying like will only reinforce clustering and geographic sorting along class lines, giving the emerging map of social, economic, and cultural segregation even greater permanence.

Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live

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.

Don't be taken in when they pat you paternally on the shoulder and say that there's no inequality worth speaking of and no more reason for fighting. Because if you believe them they will be completely in charge in their marble homes and granite banks from which they rob the people of the world under the pretense of bringing them culture. Watch out, for as soon as it pleases them they'll send you out to protect their gold in wars whose weapons rapidly developed by servile scientists will become more and more deadly until they can with a flick of the finger tear a million of you into pieces.

Right now, we are in a peak cycle. There__ tremendous energy out there, directed against the state. It__ not all focused, but it__ there, and it__ building. Maybe this will be sufficient to accomplish what we must accomplish over the fairly short run. We__l see, and we can certainly hope that this is the case. But perhaps not. We must be prepared to wage a long struggle. If this is the case then we__l probably see a different cycle, one in which the revolutionary energy of the people seems to have dispersed, run out of steam. But _ and this is important- such cycles are deceptive. Things appear to be at low ebb, but actually what__ happening is a period of regroupment, a period in which we step back and learn from the mistakes made during the preceding cycle.

I take my favorite and most promising lads to the theater,_ said [Sherlock] Holmes. __'d say that if they were born into better circumstances many would have grown up to be MP__, but in truth most are too smart and too honest for Parliament.

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas.

Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away.

Reform as such is inherently reactionary and perpetuates psychological dependence onthe enemy,while confusingthe true class contradictionsbetween ourselves and the enemy.

What was achieved under Nazi-fascism through bloody terror against the organized workers_ movement and the people is to be achieved again today in West Europe through the __nformation society

There__ class warfare, all right, but it__ my class, the rich class, that__ making war, and we__e winning.

People turned against each other cannot turn against those responsible.

Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.