Propertyless

And for decades they resisted extending the franchise to less favored groups such as propertyless working men, immigrants, racial minorities, and women. ❋ FCJ Editor (2010)

In the bourgeois mind a class struggle is a terrible and hateful thing, and yet that is precisely what socialism is, -- a world-wide class struggle between the propertyless workers and the propertied masters of workers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Sure, laws against theft hurt the utterly destitute and completely propertyless, but they sure do keep society together and prosperous for the other 99%. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Mossoff: Cohen agrees that there can be propertyless value and valueless property. ❋ Rebecca Tushnet (2009)

Even many radical English whigs firmly believed that the propertyless were not fit to exercise political authority. ❋ Unknown (2009)

To forestall that danger — specifically, the danger that the propertyless majority would tyranically tax away the property of the minority — they constructed their beautiful governmental framework of limited and enumerated powers, with its checks and balances for extra restraint. ❋ Myron Magnet (2010)

Unbalanced ratios of men to women meant most women got married; but since men tended to marry later than women, many of those brides were widowed. 38 While there are numerous examples of women amassing significant wealth through serial widowhood, there are also cautionary tales like that of twice-widowed Maria Vosloo, whose resources dissipated during her third marriage to a propertyless former Company sailor. 39 ❋ Unknown (2008)

These were the Scylla and Charybdis of democratic capitalism: on the one side, mob rule by propertyless democratic majorities; on the other side, oligarchic rule by the affluent. ❋ Jacob S. Hacker (2010)

In the US at least, where slaves were property and produced work, their condition materially tended to be better than that of either indentured servants or propertyless proletariat. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The state originated in conquest and confiscation, as a device for maintaining the stratification of society permanently into two classes - an owning and exploiting class, relatively small, and a propertyless dependent class ... ❋ Unknown (2009)

As a former Indian fighter, a Tennessean, and the first president to be elected by white, male, propertyless voters in most of the states, he successfully embodied a politics of both democratic inclusion and violent westward expansion. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Avatar is a nineteen-hour long film about a stupid ex-Marine who is employed by one of those The Companys one often hears about in science fiction movies to infiltrate the native American Indian/blue panther population of a planet because all the good stuff—a propertyless mineral called unobtanium haw haw, I write scripts and look at the Internet! ❋ Nihilistic_kid (2009)