class warfare

Related to class warfare: class struggle, Class conflict, class wars

class warfare

Conflict between different socio-economic classes The politician was accused of trying to promote class warfare with his comments about the haves and the have-nots.
See also: class, warfare
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • warfare
  • the have-nots
  • press (the) flesh
  • press flesh
  • press the flesh
  • the haves and the have-nots
  • presser
  • flesh-presser
  • war of nerves
  • war of nerves, a
References in periodicals archive
It may be a way to help avoid real class warfare as well as a way to partially solve our financial difficulties.
Rich can afford to sacrifice
The class warfare that is still being raged in some areas belongs to past generations.
Bill Midgley column
I did not encounter the kind of class warfare in dental treatment to which Coun Alden referred in her allegation that surgeries in Harborne assume residents have 'the money to pay for private treatment'.
Letter: No dental class war
BOROSAGE ["Class Warfare, Bush-Style," March] really gets it.
Class Warfare, Bush-Style. (Correspondence)
DeLay's demented attack on "corporate kingpins" -- an expression suggesting that corporations are somehow innately criminal -- unmistakably borrowed from the Marxist class warfare lexicon.
Criminalizing Capitalism. (Letters to the Editor)
But such inept class warfare obscured the fallacies inherent in the CBO's 10-year budget estimates.
FUZZY MATH: The Essential Guide to the Bush Tax Plan
By 1877, desperation was widespread, and railroad workers went out on strike all over the country, in one of the most violent episodes of class warfare in American history: 100,000 workers were on strike, 1,000 went to prison, the death toll reached 100, the cities of Chicago and St.
Disputed Elections, Concealed Facts
Namely, campaign finance limits will be proposed again following any repeal and will again have irresistible class warfare appeal, whereas it will be impossible to eliminate the Internet disclosure requirement.
Letters
In 1511, the urgent military crisis of Venice helped push vendetta over a catastrophic brink into class warfare.
Mad Blood Stirring: Vendetta and Factions in Friuli during the Renaissance
Mr Kirkham should not allow his genuine concern for the homeless to develop into a sort of class warfare against the many hard-working people of the old Royal Borough of Sutton because, by antagonising them, he will put back the cause of comprehensive housing - which he presumably supports - by at least a decade.
LETTER FROM THE PAST
First, her videotaped rant at a Boston-area fundraiser about how the rich don't make it on their own went viral, causing many to accuse her of engaging in class warfare. Then she talked - jokingly, she claimed, but not everyone got the joke - about courting the "hick" vote.
Warren's words; `Front-runner' courts Occupy, finds trouble
Janet Bell-Irving, who had travelled from Dumfriesshire with her son to see the meet, felt the ban was class warfare.
`Fabric of countryside' unravels
While a politician playing the "class warfare" card is nothing novel, Rep.
Criminalizing capitalism: blaming corrupt corporate officers for the recent stock market slide, both the White House and Congress are imposing socialist "reforms" that will exacerbate the downturn. (Cover Story: Economy)
Bush (who has raised $177 million) accused Al Gore (who has raised only $126 million) of appealing to "class warfare." It recalled the 1988 election when Bush's father (is this a genetic disorder?) accused candidate Michael Dukakis of instigating class antagonism.
A Campaign Without Class
It is difficult for a liberal to raise concerns about irresponsible corporations without being accused of class warfare. The Wall Street Journal recently ridiculed Al Gore for "schlock populism" and cynical "business-bashing."
Top-Down Class Warfare