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class warfare en · NOUN

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  1. (derogatory, sometimes, uncountable) Conflict between sociopolitical classes.
    • It's class warfare, my class is winning, but they shouldn't be. 2005 June 19, Lou Dobbs, quoting Warren Buffett, “Buffett: 'There are lots of loose nukes around the world'”, in CNN:
    • There's been a marked increase lately in Limbaugh's rhetoric about, of all things, class warfare. 1994, Charles M. Kelly, The Great Limbaugh Con: and other right-wing assaults on common sense, page 79:
    • It is class warfare under the theory of 'let's get the rich guy, the richest 1 percent. ... Once again, we are engaging in classic class warfare. 2004, Paula S. Rothenberg, Race, class, and gender in the United States: an integrated study, page 590:
    • To end this class warfare is the conscious aim of the Socialist movement. 1906, John Spargo, The Socialists, page 71:

Synonyms

class war · class struggle