Quotes by Bourgeoisie Marx is thought of as an implacable foe of capitalism. But go back and read the first section of the Communist Manifesto. Notice how it contains a paean of praise for the way capitalism and the bourgeoisie have both enriched the human powers of production and also enabled us to see with clear vision the nature of human society and human history. Allen W. Wood bourgeoisie vision way The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history. Buenaventura Durruti bourgeoisie might world It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie -- seem attractive by comparison. Christopher Lasch bourgeoisie horror peculiar Romance is the douche of the bourgeoisie. David Berman bourgeoisie douches romance It is the bourgeoisie which has turned religion into an opium of the people by preaching a God, lord of the heavens only, while taking possession of the earth for itself. Frei Betto bourgeoisie heaven people It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture. George Grosz bourgeoisie culture art The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, culture. It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing art to defend their collapsing culture. George Grosz bourgeoisie culture art Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer. George Bernard Shaw noblemen bourgeoisie civilization It is the corpse of the bourgeoisie that separates us. With us, it is that class that is the carrier of the chromosome of banality. Jean Baudrillard banality bourgeoisie class I think [Alain Robbe-Grillet] a good writer, but he speaks to the comfortable bourgeoisie. Jean-Paul Sartre bourgeoisie speak thinking Norman Rockwell, the Brueghel of the 20th century bourgeoisie, the Holbein of Jell-O ads and magazine covers; by common assent, the most American artist of all. Jerry Adler bourgeoisie magazines artist The Class war will find me on the side of the educated bourgeoisie. John Maynard Keynes bourgeoisie class war Acting has been gentrified. It's become part of the bourgeoisie. But there was a time when it would be a great scandal if you announced you were going to be an actor. Julian Sands bourgeoisie acting would-be The unity of the bourgeoisie can be shaken only by the unity of the proletariat. Karl Marx proletariat bourgeoisie unity What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable. Karl Marx bourgeoisie victory fall In the various stages of development which the struggle of working class against the bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always and everywhere represent the interests of the movement as a whole. Karl Marx bourgeoisie struggle class The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society. Karl Marx bourgeoisie communist-manifesto instruments The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie. Karl Marx bourgeoisie affair common Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeosis epoch from all earlier ones. Karl Marx agitation bourgeoisie communist-manifesto The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe. Karl Marx bourgeoisie communist-manifesto needs 123»