Letter: Improper use of 'class warfare' an insult to millions of actual victims

Published: Friday, Dec. 7 2012 12:00 a.m. MST

In this Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011 photo, President Barack Obama speaks about the economy at Osawatomie High School in Osawatomie, Kan.

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"Class warfare" gets used often in today's conversations and writings. Ninety-nine percent of the time the context in which it is used is utter and complete nonsense.

Genuine class warfare took place under the totalitarian dictatorships of Joseph Stalin, Adolph Hitler and Mao Zedong. The leaders of the class with power murdered millions of human beings.

The improper use of the term "class warfare" is an insult to the millions of victims of genuine class warfare.

William Gronberg

Payson

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Roland Kayser

Cottonwood Heights, UT

To see class warfare at work you need only examine one statistic. The share of the national income going to working people vs. to corporate profits and the very rich. For several decades after WWII about 2/3 of the national income went to workers. More..

9:15 a.m. Dec. 7, 2012
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JoeBlow

Far East USA, SC

Ah, nice try. Again the GOP taking things out of context to mislead. Here is the full context.

"If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to More..

8:48 a.m. Dec. 7, 2012
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Stalwart Sentinel

San Jose, CA

Mike Richards - You obviously have little knowledge of what seeds have been sown by previous presidents. Try starting with the poignant speech by FDR in Madison Square Garden in 1936.

Quick history: FDR was a Democrat that succeeded a More..

8:31 a.m. Dec. 7, 2012
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