There is no revolution more dangerous than a revolution of the poor. When you organize the lower classes, workers, farmers, low wage earners, the unemployed, and financially struggling students, you are immediately posing a threat to the ruling power structure; pulling the marginalized majority into conflict with the elite minority; and this will be suppressed more forcefully and more quickly than any other type of oppositional social movement.
This is precisely the revolution the global owners of capital fear the most. If it is merely an uprising, an eruption of violence, then they have nothing to fear; it will be useful to them, because they can justify repression, and imprison or kill whole swathes of a segment of the population they already regard as superfluous. But if it is truly organized, focused, and geared toward substantive demands and policy reforms,and if it succeeds in mobilizing the impoverished masses, it can be an irresistible force.
In the US, no social movement ever faced greater repression than the labor movement, and any effort to organize the underclass. The Civil Rights leader, Martin Luther King was not ostracized by the authorities until he became an advocate of the poor, and it was only when he proposed a Poor Peoples’ Campaign, and an Occupy Wall Street-style protest in Washington D.C. by poverty-stricken American citizens, that he was finally assassinated.
It is only when you start to talk about class issues and the injustice of the economic system, that the ruling class actually starts to pay attention.