It was a powerful, splendidly-organized body of mercenaries and selfseekers which, by trading on the principles of democracy, had been able to count on the partisan votes of a predominating element of the wage- working class.
In 1851 the amount received for trans-Atlantic postages was not less than a million dollars; three-fourths of this sum came directly from the working class.
A memorial of a "Portion of the Laboring Classes of the City of New York in Relation to The Money Market" complained to Congress in 1833 that the powers of the Government were used against the working class.
Moreover, nothing is clearer than his prophecy that the working class "will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degrees, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the State.
The syndicalist and anarchist alone fail to see here any drift toward socialism; they see only a growing tyranny creating a class of favored civil servants, who are divorced from the actual working class.
The only difference is this, that Bakounin sought the aid of "the people," while the syndicalists rely upon the working class.
With a working class made up of many races, nationalities, and creeds, trade-union organization is excessively difficult.
We sometimes hear the same pessimist prophecy about shorter hours as we have heard for centuries about better wages, that they will only seduce the working class to increased dissipation.
For this is as much as to say that no reform will ever be brought to a point that wholly satisfies the working people except through a working class government.
Daily conversation was shocked into some contact with realities--the newspapers actually printed facts about the situation of a working class population.
This is just as true of the boy from a "middle class" family as it is of the boy from a "working class" family.
The "middle class" boy will have to work longer and go farther than the "working class" boy in order to rise to the financial standards of his class.
The Lawrence and Paterson strikes, and the strike in the copper country, have offered abundant evidence of the growing strength of the feeling of working class solidarity.
But there is very much more than a fervent hope in working class anti-militarism.
Deliver a crushing rebuke to the hireling-officials of San Diego by a united vote of the workers that will rescue the city from the rule of the degenerates and place it forever under a working class administration.
It was a working class movement he was organizing and a working class revolution he was preparing the way for.
It is precisely this policy and the alluring promise it holds out to new members with more zeal than knowledge of working class economics, that constitutes the danger we should guard against in preparing for the next campaign.
Having come into power the proletariat only asserts the absolute impossibility of applying the methods of bourgeois democracy, and it creates the conditions and forms of a higher working class democracy.
Socialism in Russia, facing for the first time in Socialist history, the problem of inaugurating a working class state, found itself paralyzed by the existence of a parliamentary form of Democracy.
In revolutionary Germany the struggle between the defenders of capitalism and the champions of working class emanicipation--the Spartacides and their adherents--continues almost unceasingly.
The witness told of having been one of a working class family, too large to be properly cared for and having to leave home and make his own way in the world before he was eleven years old.
By that I mean that in the world of shoes there are shoemakers, and in the world of boats there are seamen, and in this society there are economic categories called the employing class and the working class.
Both stood for the supreme power of the people; but the Girondist justly understood all by the people, while the Montagnards considered only the working class to be the people.
The struggle for the dictatorship of the working class means, at the present moment, an embittered struggle with Kautskianism within the working class.
Such a party has shown that it has no claim to the sympathies of the democratic classes of the population, and that it has no realization and no understanding of the feeling of political honor which must permeate the working class.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "working class" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
