Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov Quotes

The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.

The working poor is a growing population in this country.

We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only upper classes can afford; the working people are hopelessly bound to their native shores.

… the struggling masses

Since Mill, in 1848, wrote his chapter on the future of the working classes, the question of the distribution of wealth has be-come of still greater importance. We cannot look round on the political phenomena of to-day without seeing that this question is at the root of them. We see the perplexity in which men stand, and the divisions springing up in our great political parties, because of the uncertainty of politicians how to grapple with it.

There’s been an economic war going on in this country and the middle class and the poor have been losing..

If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise.

I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.

Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.

My sympathies have always been for working-class people.

If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.

The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind.

A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created.

It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

If work were good for you, the rich would leave none for the poor.

Leaders of the business community ... have chosen to wage a one-sided class war today in this country - a war against working people, the unemployed, the poor, the minorities, the very young and the very old. .

The central issue of our time remains the fact that the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer.

The social order we have built recognizes no exploitation of man by man. In our country there are no rich people to live at the expense of the workers and peasants. Just as there are no poor people living on the charity of others.

The needs of the poor take priority over the desires of the rich

If work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

The whole contention lies between those that labor for a living and those that do not.

There are no great lords who possess everything and a herd of people who have nothing