Immanuel Wallerstein Quotes

The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.

There is far too little discussion in Washington about the collapse of the middle class , almost no discussion at all about the incredible income inequality and wealth inequality in this country, and the fact that we're moving toward an oligarch form of society.

The interesting thing about class warfare is that it's only class warfare if it's up, not down. If you talk about welfare cheats or something, that's not class warfare because it's down; you have to talk about rich people before it's class warfare.

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.

There are only two classes in society: those who get more than they earn, and those who earn more than they get.

There's no such thing as median income; there's a curve, and it really matters what side of the curve you're on. There's no such thing as the middle class. It's absolutely vanishing.

The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider.

The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the black underclass.

There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.

In 1750, 75 percent of people on the planet worked to support the top 25 percent.

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.

I think there's really strong social stratification in South Asia.

It is the unvarying law that the wealth of the community will be in the hands of the few ...

In this respect, higher education is now causing most of the growing inequality and strengthening class structure of the United States.

Americans have historically been more willing than Europeans to tolerate high inequality levels if accompanied by strong economic growth and a healthy middle class.

A simple way to forecast the future is to look at what rich people have today; middle-income people will have something equivalent in 10 years, and poor people will have something equivalent in an additional decade.

If we wait until income inequality is much more severe, we will have a whole class of new superrich who will probably feel entitled to their wealth and will have the means to defend their interest. That's already gone far enough. We shouldn't let it become more extreme.

The billionaire class fully understands what is at stake. That's why a handful of them are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into the current elections. Their goal is not to strengthen the middle class, but continue the trend in which the rich are getting richer at the expense of everyone else.

BRAZILIFICATION:The widening gulf between the rich and the poor and the accompanying disappearance of the middle classes.

I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations.

The greatest trick the rich - and their cheerleaders on the right - ever pulled was convincing the world that class didn't exist. Out here in the real world, it is more real and more rigid than it has been for a century.

If there is any law governing the distribution of income between classes, it still remains to be discovered.

Class is a way of looking at society that divides people into different categories based on how much money they're willing to make.