me, washing dishes: god, so much of US history and politics, past and present, domestic and international, has been about exploiting the hell out of a class of people while developing policies and force to prevent that same class from actually using their labor power as leverage, and... hold on, I've heard this somewhere

Marx, shouting from beyond the grave: THE HISTORY OF ALL HITHERTO EXISTING SOCIETIES IS THE HISTORY OF CLASS STRUGGLES, MOTHERFUCKER