# Klassenschranken

The year 2020 will go down in history as the 'epochal year' (Andreas Wirsching), because since then the Corona pandemic has kept the world on tenterhooks. Yet an Oxfam study recently showed that the rich-poor gap has not only widened worldwide due to Covid-19, but that our social order (re-)produces and mercilessly manifests poverty. The structural and individual discrimination based on poverty is called classism. It is about disadvantages based on social origin (so-called workers' children) or social position. While the term is still young and the theorem behind it is currently being hotly debated in the media, the phenomenon it describes is much older. Riccardo Altieri vividly shows the development of classism from its beginnings to the present.