"Race is the queen of the 'classes': but in Europe today it's power is very slight- for one reason, because it lacks all organisation or even reality. But there are less fundamental ones, but usually far more present to our consciousness in everyday life, needing the greatest attention, and involving a variety of ritual.
The other 'classes' it is true, have never been recognised as of the same standing as race. As a casus belli they have been inferior to it. none of these other differences, or the membership of any of the other classes, was recognised as a pretext for taking life. Race or nationality, on the other hand, has, in the modern world, been recognised as a sanction for murder by every State. But this sanction usually had only 'nationality' to repose on, which was a very different thing to race. Marx, with his 'class war' indirectly demonstrated the absurdity of these privileges of race- especially when it was not race at all. The success of his system has shown how easy it is to substitute, in a disorganised, non-racially founded society, any 'class' for the classical 'racial' unit of the State.
Once 'war' between classes started spreading, from the teaching of Marx, it did not stop at social 'class' naturally....."
Wyndham Lewis
The Art of Being Ruled