Karl Marx
Philosopher, Economist
"The unity of the bourgeoisie can be shaken only by the unity of the proletariat."
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Bourgeoisie
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Karl Marx
Philosopher, Economist
"What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable."
Pablo Picasso
Painter, Sculptor
"Art is a finger up the bourgeoisie ass."
Karl Marx
Philosopher, Economist
"Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, posses however, this distinctive feature; it has simplified the class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other."
Karl Marx
Philosopher, Economist
"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."
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"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."
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"The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie."
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"What we are headed for is a sort of social structure in which the highbrows are the elite, the middlebrows are the bourgeoisie and the lowbrows are hoi polloi."
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"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."
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"The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe."
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"This proletarianization of the lower salaried bourgeoisie is accompanied by an excess in the opposite direction: the irrationally high pay of top managers and bankers, a level of remuneration that is economically irrational since, as investigations in the US have demonstrated, it tends to be inversely proportional to the company's success."
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"The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar."
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"Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer."
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"No sooner is the exploitation of the labourer by the manufacturer, so far, at an end, that he receives his wages in cash, than he is set upon by the other portions of the bourgeoisie, the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc."
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"Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeosis epoch from all earlier ones."
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"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."
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"It is a very good thing, and a significant one too, to exterminate the bourgeoisie and capitalism in China."
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"To overthrow the power of the bourgeoisie and to establish the power of the proletariat in one country still does not signify the full victory of Socialism."
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"I think [Alain Robbe-Grillet] a good writer, but he speaks to the comfortable bourgeoisie."
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