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Americans who are not in the wealthiest one percent of the US
population.
Class wars have been going on since the beginning of recorded
history. As societies become more powerful and wealthy, they
often become more corrupt. Towards the end of each cycle, a few
rich families Class wars is a dirty term in our media, which always implies that America is above such crudeness. But the very rich are not above that at all. They have been waging an especially intense attack on working people at home since the 1970's, and have accumulated immense wealth and power at the expense of the rest of us. Of course, America's class wars are not fought with tanks and bombs, but with crooked politicians, right wing think tanks and corporate owned media. For the very rich to maintain and increase their share of the national wealth, they have to fool you. How else could one percent of our population call the shots for ninety-nine percent? Activist Radio will attempt to show you how the few So sit back, relax, and listen to Activist Radio streamed live: Thursdays from 5 - 6 pm EST
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practically everything and rule with an iron fist. Imperial wars
for empire and military over-expansion are other trademarks of a
debased and undemocratic society. Empire brings about great
poverty and suffering not only in the occupied and exploited
lands, but at home as well. 
richest of our citizens lie to the rest of us to expand their
power and wealth. They are sick with greed, of course. But so
far, the rest of us are what might be worse, and that is stupid.
None of the information presented is particularly new or really
very hard to find, although you won't read it in the mainstream
press or see it on TV. If that is what you are relying on for
news, you are being suckered, my friend. I don't know how to put
it any nicer.
Abraham Lincoln |
| And above all Fascism denies that class-war
can be the preponderant force in the transformation of society.
Benito Mussolini |
| The first truth is that the liberty of a
democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of
private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their
democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism -
ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any
other controlling private power.
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| A revolution is a class struggle. It was
one class - the oppressed, and that other class - the oppressor.
Fred Hampton |
| Surely, in the history of lies told to the
population, this is the biggest lie. In the history of secrets,
withheld from the American people, this is the biggest secret:
that there are classes with different interests in this country.
To ignore that--not to know that the history of our country is a
history of slaveowner against slave, landlord against tenant,
corporation against worker, rich against poor--is to render us
helpless before all the lesser lies told to us by people in
power.
Howard Zinn |
| The clinical definition of "fascism' is
when private concentrated economic power takes government away
from the people, turns government into a guarantor, a
subsidizer, a covering of corporate power.
Ralph Nader |
| There's class warfare, all right, but it's
my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning.
Warren Buffet |
| This [$700 billion bailout] was the largest
single act of class warfare in the modern history of this
country.
Dennis Kucinich |
| I think this has been a class war waged by
the rich against the poor, and I think that they won. And I
think the poor are fighting back.
Naomi Klein |
| The solution is revolution, first in the
spirit of the gospel; Jesus could not accept people going
hungry. It is a conflict between classes, rich and poor. My role
is to preach and organize.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide |
| The effect of the [European Central Bank]
policies is to weaken the welfare state measures and to reduce
the power of labor. That's class war. It's fine for the banks,
for financial institutions, but terrible for the population.
Noam Chomsky |
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US has a highly class-conscious business class. If you read the
business literature, it's like reading Mao's "Red Book." The
values may be inverted, but the terminology is the same. They're
fighting a bitter class war constantly. They never relax for a
minute. Noam Chomsky
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| The breakdown [of American society] is not
caused by economic laws. They are policies, a kind of class war
initiated by the rich and powerful against the working
population and the poor. This is what defines the neoliberalism
period, not only in the United States but in Europe and
elsewhere. Noam
Chomsky
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45 years there has been a war in this country waged by the
corporate elite against the working class of America. Bernie
Sanders
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| If
there is going to be class warfare in this country, it's about
time the working class won that war. Bernie Sanders
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theft of public resources for the military and militarism
domestically and abroad represent a one-sided class war waged on
the working class in the U.S. The 6 trillion dollars spent on
U.S. wars since 2003 are resources that could have been directed
to address the increasing desperate plight of workers and poor
people in the U.S. Ajamu
Baraka
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