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class warfare en · NOUN
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(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