Conservatives insist that government should be "run more like a business." One might wonder how that could be possible, since government does not mar… - Michael Parenti

Economically deprived groups are seen as a threat because they want more, and more for the have-nots might mean less for the haves.

Seizing upon anything but class, U.S. leftists today have developed an array of centering around ethnic, gender, cultural, and life-style issues. These groups treat their respective grievances as something apart from class struggle, and have almost nothing to say about the increasingly harsh politico-economic class injustices perpetrated against us all.

The desire to "make it," even at the expense of others, is not merely a wrong-headed at attitude but a reflection of the material conditions of capitalist society wherein no one is ever really economically secure except the superrich.