ARISTOTLE AND CLASS WARFARE

I happened to come across quotes from Aristotle's POLITICS that indicate to me that in 300 BC he was aware of what Marx would centuries later call "class warfare."

In all states therefore there exist three divisions of the state, the very rich, the very poor, and thirdly those who are between the two. - Arist. Pol. 1295b.1,

Aristotle thought that what we would call the top 1% or MOTU or the Ruling Class was unsuitable for governing or being governed (same passage):

...And in addition to these points, those who have an excess of fortune's goods, strength, wealth, friends and the like, are not willing to be governed and do not know how to be (and they have acquired this quality even in their boyhood from their home life, which was so luxurious that they have not got used to submitting to authority even in school)

If we did have a state with just two classes, rich and poor, it would inevitably deteriorate because those two classes are natural enemies:

The result is a state consisting of slaves and masters, not of free men, and of one class envious and another contemptuous of their fellows. This condition of affairs is very far removed from friendliness, and from political partnership—for friendliness is an element of partnership, since men are not willing to be partners with their enemies even on a journey. - Arist. Pol. 1295b.20