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'''Economic classes''' are generally divided into upper class (wealthy), middle class, and the poor.
'''Economic classes''' are generally divided into the [[rich]] upper class or [[aristocracy]], the [[middle class]], and the [[poor]] lower class. People in the upper class are so [[wealth]]y that they don't have to work. The middle class work for a living midway in comfort between wealth and poverty. They can be either [[white collar]] or [[blue collar]] workers. The lower class are so poor that they often beg for alms as in the [[untouchables]] [[caste]] in [[India]].
The conditions of the three classes has varied by time and place. In free societies, [[upward mobility]] makes it possible for poor people to become middle class, and this is rather common. Less frequently, middle-class people become rich.
In [[List of Communist States|Communist]] countries, as in other highly stratified societies, people rarely change class. This is ironic, because [[Communist]]s justify the revolutionary overthrow of "[[Capitalism]]" by saying they will create a [[classless society]], but actually they just replace the old upper class of with a new one; see [[Nomenklatura]].
== Quotes from Lenin ==
* “The way to crush the [[middle class]] is to grind them between the millstones of [[taxation]] and [[inflation]].” -- [[Lenin]]
==See also==
* [[Social class]] and Economic class
* [[Upward mobility]]
* [[Aristocracy]] or [[Nobility]]
* [[Bourgeoisie]] - some say [[White collar]]
* [[Working class]] - or laboring class - some say [[Blue collar]]
* [[Working class values]] - [[American values]] - [[Real America]]
* [[Proletariat]]
* The [[poor]] - [[peasant]] or [[serf]] class or [[shudra]] and [[untouchables]] [[caste]]
* [[Welfare state]] and [[Class warfare]]
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* [[Caste system]]
* [[Brahmin]]s—priests and scholars
* [[Kshatriya]] -- [[warrior]]s and [[noble]]s
* [[Vaishya]] -- [[merchant]]s and [[farmer]]s
* Shudra—artisans and those of the [[serf]] class.
* [[Untouchables]]—the lowest [[social class]]
==References==
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==External links==
* http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/the-real-meaning-of-downward-class-migration
* http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/do-not-make-fun-of-those-that-have-fallen-out-of-the-middle-class-you-could-be-next
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