Kerry Packer Quotes

The working class of England today have no vision of society beyond the acquisitive - no version of themselves or their habits as anything other than transitional, on their way up or on their way out. The working class, at best, is a waiting room for people who aim to become middle class if possible.

Keep up the middle class; lop off aristocracy on the one hand, and a rabble at the other; let the middle class ... have the power.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

It is true that the top quintile is getting richer while the bottom is getting poorer, but the bottom is not the same people. There is, fortunately, a constant churning at the bottom as new immigrants move in and those who used to be on the bottom begin their long, thrilling upward climb to the American dream.

None of us should be ashamed to speak of our class power or lack of it. Overcoming fear, even the fear of being immodest, and acting courageously to bring issues of class- especially radical standpoints – into the discourse of blackness is a gesture of militant defiance, one that runs counter to bourgeois insistence that we think of “money” in particular and class in general as private matters.

You destroy the initiative of the working people if they don't feel they have a fighting chance to be a part of the American Dream.

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.

While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.

In other countries they have histories with revolutions and class movements. In America, people don't like to think of themselves like being in a lower class. They all like to think of themselves as potential millionaires.

It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.

The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.

One of the things I get amused by is when my opponent talks about the middle class.

What does it mean with regard to tactics, this fact that the proletariat of Western Europe stands all alone: that it has no prospect of any help whatsoever from any other class?

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.

Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time.

Every capitalist who suffers from the competition of still greater capitalists denounces those above him and cries out for help on behalf of the middle class

The best social programs we've had in this country are those that have united the middle class and the poor.

A struggle must go on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the Earth and the machinery of production, and abolish the wage system.

It is the historic mission of the working class to do away with capitalism.

What did the workers and peasants gain when power passed from the kings and nobles to the bankers and manufacturers?

Who, if not the revolutionary intelligentsia, could promote the political development of the working class?

It's not class warfare to talk about fairness.

… an army of Gatsbys wanting not to overturn the social order but only to belong to the upper crust.