Word: classlessness
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...first subject was "The Structure of American Society"; under this title he reiterated the same plea which he has been making up and down the Atlantic seaboard during the past few months; if the goals of this nation are to remain equality of opportunity and a classless democracy, education must be supported by federal...
...power politics - the appeal to the foreign masses to organize, conspire and ultimately revolt against the dominant classes in their respective countries. The promise was that when the socialist organization of abundance was complete, the totalitarian state would dissolve of its own superfluousness in a new kind of classless democracy. To most Americans and western Europeans this was the uncertain ideal, dictatorship, the inescapable fact...
...Britain's conservative labor leaders, loathed by leftish Laborites), who genially expounds the wonders that will come from Labor Party gradualism. He takes out of a box two tiny human figures -Mr. Ema (Education for the Masses) and Miss Ame (Ministress for Amenities). They deliver pretty speeches about classless education and beautiful laborsaving apartments for all. This meeting slightly lifts the Young Soldier's spirits. He hurries past a gesticulating Robot mechanically expounding Marxism and predicting Capitalism's postwar collapse...
...point of fact, Bridges will not be "an Armistice Day speaker." He is delivering his address on November 11 simply because that day is most convenient. His subject, "Labor and the War," is no more contrary to American ideals and principles than President Conant's address on "The Classless Society" (a thoroughly Communistic ideal...
...spite of slavery, of the landed aristocracy of the South and the families of seaport merchant princes, in spite of later industrial barons in the North and East," the American ideology became fixed in the ideal of a classless society, rejecting the idea of hereditary privilege. The strength of that ideal was illustrated by Conant with the melting-pot tradition, whereby immigrants were not permanently relegated to an inferior social condition. Even the radicals, he said, soft-pedalled the class struggle...