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2006-01-23 In Thailand, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's family sells a controlling stake in Shin Corp to Singapore state investment firm Temasek.
The tax-free $1.9 billion sale angers Bangkok's middle class and fuels weeks of street protests.
2002 "By the early 1970s . . . two social groups were particularly susceptible to Islamist persuasion. One was the huge mass of urban young poor from deprived backgrounds whose parents had come in from the country. The other was the devout bourgeoisie, a class excluded from political power and economically hemmed in by military and monarchical regimes. These two groups were both committed to the sharia [traditional Islamic law] and to the idea of an Islamic state, but they did not view that state in quite the same way. The former imbued it with a social-revolutionary content, while the latter saw it as a vehicle for wresting power for themselves from the incumbent elites, without fundamentally disturbing the existing social hierarchies.

This divergence of interests lies at the very heart of contemporary Islamism. The Islamist intelligentsia's role was to gloss over this clash of social agendas and reconcile the two groups to the shared pursuit of power. The intellectuals did this by concentrating on the moral and cultural dimensions of religion. They won the broadest base of support-and in Iran it was broad enough to carry them to power-when they mobilized both the young urban poor and the devout bourgeoisie with an ideology that offered a vague social agenda but a sharp focus on morality . . . On the other hand, wherever the coalition between the young urban poor and the devout bourgeoisie dissolved, the more radical and more moderate elements cancelled one another out and the Islamist movement failed to seize power . . . .The essential contradiction between the radical goals of the young urban poor and the conservative goals of the bourgeoisie . . . lurked behind the apparently united front of Islamism . . ."
-- Gilles Kepel, professor of Middle East Studies at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris, in his book "Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam"
1987 William Julius Wilson, a black scholar, published his widely acclaimed book The Truly Disadvantaged.

In it he says that, while racism remains a powerful force, it cannot explain the plight of inner-city blacks. The central problem is poverty—social class—and that poverty flows from the material conditions of black neighborhoods.
1981 For the period after the end of Second World War, the United States gained increasing prominence as the leading power of imperialist reaction, taking Germany’s place in this respect... And its ruling class managed, particularly during the imperialist era, to have the democratic forms so effectively preserved that by democratically legal means, it achieved a dictatorship of monopoly capitalism at least as firm as that which Hitler set up by tyrannical procedures...And this democracy could, in substance, realize everything sought by Hitler.
-- Gyorgy Lukacs -The Destruction of Reason (Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, 1981 at pp.765,770.
Employment, even dual employment, is no longer any kind of barrier against poverty.
-- Matt Taibbi, in his article It's a Class War, Stupid
A person’s class position is established by his view of the future. Present-oriented people are lower class. Future-oriented people are upper class.
-- Edward Banfield, Harvard political science professor, in his book 'The Unheavenly City'
India's middle class has swelled to 300 million; a number larger the population of the entire United States
George Bush' goal is: To help perpetuate a wealth based aristocratic class of families, companies and individuals of which he believes himself to be part

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