You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You need a vanguard organization in order to overcome the dangerous potential brought about by the uneven development of class militancy and class consciousness.
No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
I have a class prejudice - against the upper class, which is foolish.
People think if you're working class, there has to be some fascist element underneath.
You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand.
It's true: one of the things that I've always thought about American society is that you never get the sort of natural politicisation of class consciousness that you would get in the United Kingdom or even in Australia.
This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.
The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.