Class Struggle—American Style

It has long been part of American folklore that ours is the only country in the world where social classes don’t exist. Such is the myth. And the myth is ridiculous.

Whatever the country and the culture, whether capitalist, Communist or mixed, the phenomenon of classes occurs. Classes are a corollary of natural or artificial inequalities. Every society develops standards for admission, and entry into the leading group is conditional upon an individual’s measuring up to these standards.