Lewis H. Lapham Quotes

America is about class. To pretend that it isn't is very ignorant. No society has ever existed without some kind of a ruling class.

Lewis H. Lapham

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• America is about class. To pretend that it isn't is very ignorant. No society has ever existed without some kind of a ruling class.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • America
  • Society
  • Ignorant