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“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” ― Ronald Wr
by drwicked 9y ago
“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
― Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress
Commonly misattributed
- archagon 9y agoIncidentally, I recently found a similar sentiment expressed in a book from 1937: http://ask.metafilter.com/314056/Temporarily-Embarrassed-Millionaires-Steinbeck-vs-Ilf-Petrov-Trone http://ask.metafilter.com/314056/Temporarily-Embarrassed-Mil...