class war

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Beginning just before World War One, the novel and its sequels follow Chris from the countryside of her childhood to a big city, touching on class, war, religion and female emancipation.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2025

In “Weekend,” his characters lampoon the hypocrisy of bourgeois society even as they demonstrate the comic futility of violent class war.

From Washington Times • Sep. 13, 2022

I’m not trying to start a class war or pretend we are poorer than we are.

From Slate • Jun. 8, 2020

We get cold war, class war, the terror war, colonialism, anti-colonialism, scarcity of resources, ecological collapse.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2015

But to recognize the French Revolution as a class war, and not simply one between nobility and bourgeoisie, but between nobility, bourgeoisie, and the non-possessers, was, in the year 1802, a most pregnant discovery.

From Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Engels, Friedrich