Ruling class

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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

Karl Marx

The Communist Manifesto

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Topic

Ruling class Class conflict History of ideas Ideas

Author

Karl Marx

Source

The Communist Manifesto

Medium

Pamphlet

Genre

Political literature Economic literature

Language

German

Time

1848 1840s 19th century

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Original Citation

Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels [published anonymously]. Manifest der kommunistischen Partei [Manifesto of the Communist Party]. London: Gedruckt in der Office der Bildungs-Gesellschaft für Arbeiter, 1848.

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Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto, translated by Samuel Moore and Friedrich Engels. Penguin Classics, 2002.

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He rather hated the ruling few than loved the suffering many.

Jeremy Bentham

In reference to James Mill, the father of John Stuart Mill.

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Topic

Ruling class Working class Class conflict

Speaker

Jeremy Bentham

Author

Caroline Fox

Source

Journals of Caroline Fox

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1849 1840s 19th century

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Citation

Bentham, Jeremy. Quoted in Memories of Old Friends, being Extracts from the Journals and Letters of Caroline Fox, edited by H. N. Pym. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Company, 1882. Originally written as a journal entry dated 7 Aug. 1849.

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There are only four ways in which a ruling class can fall from power. Either it is conquered from without, or it governs so inefficiently that the masses are stirred to revolt, or it allows a strong and discontented Middle group to come into being, or it loses its own self-confidence and willingness to govern. These causes do not operate singly, and as a rule all four of them are present in some degree. A ruling class which could guard against all of them would remain in power permanently. Ultimately the determining factor is the mental attitude of the ruling class itself.

George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four

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Topic

Revolution Ruling class Political theory Politics

Author

George Orwell

Source

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Medium

Novel

Genre

Dystopian fiction

Language

English

Time

1949 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949, pt. 2, ch. 9.