Class Oppression
All class societies, including the present owning-class-wage-worker society (capitalism), act to dehumanize all human beings contained within them. For adult humans to cooperate with their assigned roles in the oppressive society, whether the role be that of an exploited worker or an exploiting owner, they must be hurt as children and have distress patterns installed on them or their intelligence would forbid their participation in the irrationalities of the class society.
Initially the same kind of pattern is installed upon the children intended to be exploited as upon the ones who are intended to be the exploiting ones. These are patterns of oppression installed by young people’s oppression, by the systematic mistreatment of children by adults. The primary difference between the conditioning of the working-class person and the conditioning of the owning-class person is that the working-class person is kept in the exploited end of the pattern while the child intended to be an owning-class person is manipulated into the exploiting end of the distress recording.
From page 396 of “The Oppression of Classism” in The Rest of Our Lives
(Present Time 202, January 2021)