@alena_03 the quote turns out to actually not be directly from Steinbeck but an interpretation of some things that he did say but I think this does answer your question

“John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”

― Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress

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