Sentences with phrase «against the middle class getting»

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Where these movements of eco-justice stand in isolation from the struggle against «capitalist infringements of communal rights to natural resources», that is, from the struggle for social justice, they are likely to be of a purely middle class character and tend to get coopted by the ideology of market economy.

«In the period that the NDC has been in office, we have seen the greatest upward movement of people from lower classes into the middle class, and yet when people get into the middle class because of the perception that our party is social democratic and it's against property owning and seeks to equalize poverty, then those same people that we have created the conditions to be upwardly mobile drift into the property owning classes and therefore identify themselves with a different ideology.

Aug. 9, 8:55 a.m. Updated In a column in The Times Sunday magazine, Judith Warner cautions against celebrating downsizing, asserting that the Great Recession has been far more wretched than redemptive for most people, with the rich just getting slightly less rich while the poor got poorer and the middle class lost a big slice of its hard - won wealth.

There's a sideswipe at the carbon footprint of middleclass Aga owners; a defence of Greens against the accusation that they're an overwhelmingly middle class movement; and a rather pathetic attempt at a class breakdown of Ryanair customers, before getting down to the main issue — an attack on Spiked and its principal contributors for their agnostic position on global warming.