John Steinbeck Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: February 27, 1902 - December 20, 1968
Birthday: February 27
Death: December 20
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
source: Attributed in "A Short History of Progress" by Ronald Wright, Toronto: Anansi Press, (pp. 124), 2004.
topic: Roots, America, Politics, Exploitation, Political Ideology, Communism And Socialism, Proletariat, Temporality, Exploits
