Vietnamese say Communist officials have become a "new landlord class" that misuses the talented and abuses the poor.

The power and legitimacy of the landlord class, which had underpinned Porfirian rule, never recovered.

Then the Ulema were brought in who traditionally supported the landlord class.

In Russia the interests of the landlord class were, of course, carefully considered and safeguarded.

"He comes from the landlord class," someone spat out.

About 2,200 people have taken the landlord classes since 1995.

In the countryside, the landlord class was eliminated during the land reform.

Short noted that landlord class were not exterminated as a people due to Mao's belief in redemption through thought reform.

This, along with an Education Bill, raised a massive uproar from the landlord classes.

The landlord class were very angry, and vowed revenge.