Quotes About Bourgeoisie

The working men have no country... national differences and antagonisms between people are daily more and more vanishing, owing to the development of the bourgeoisie, to freedom of commerce, to the world market, to uniformity in the modes of production and to the conditions of life corresponding thereto.

The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the whole surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connections everywhere.

The discovery of America, the rounding of the Cape, opened up fresh ground for the rising bourgeoisie.

La société bourgeoise moderne, élevée sur les ruines de la société féodale, n'a pas aboli les antagonismes de classes. Elle n'a fait que substituer aux anciennes de nouvelles classes, de nouvelles conditions d'oppression, de nouvelles formes de lutte.

When the ancient world was in its last throes, the ancient religions were overcome by Christianity. When Christian ideas succumbed in the 18th century to rationalist ideas, feudal society fought its death battle with the then revolutionary bourgeoisie. The ideas of religious liberty and freedom of conscience merely gave expression to the sway of free competition within the domain of knowledge.

Comment la bourgeoisie surmonte-elle ces crises ? D'une part, par la destruction forcée d'une masse de forces productives ; d'autre part, par la conquête de nouveaux marchés, et l'exploitation plus parfaite des anciens. C'est-à-dire qu'elle prépare des crises plus générales et plus formidables et diminue les moyens de les prévenir.

A classe média baixa, o pequeno fabricante, o lojista, o artesão, o camponês, todos lutam contra a burguesia para salvar da extinção sua existência como frações da classe média. Eles não são, portanto, revolucionários, mas conservadores.

O que caracteriza o comunismo não é a abolição da propriedade geral, mas a abolição da propriedade burguesa.

The executive of the modern State is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.

The introduction of free competition is thus public declaration that from now on the members of society are unequal only to the extent that their capitals are unequal, that capital is the decisive power, and that therefore the capitalists, the bourgeoisie, have become the first class in society.

The bourgeoisie has subjected the country to the rule of the towns. It has created enormous cities, has greatly increased the urban population as compared with the rural, and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life. Just as it has made the country dependent on the towns, so it has made barbarian and semi-barbarian countries dependent on the civilised ones, nations of peasants on nations of bourgeois, the East on the West.

grands dignitaires de l'armée, de l'Université, de l'Église, du barreau, de l'Académie et de la presse étaient partagés, bien qu'en proportion inégale, entre les deux courants. Ils avaient trouvé dans la République bourgeoise, qui ne portait ni le nom de Bourbon, ni celui d'Orléans, mais celui de Capital, la forme d'État dans laquelle ils pouvaient régner en commun.

What makes them representatives of the petty bourgeoisie is the fact that in their minds they do not get beyond the limits which the latter do not get beyond in life, that they are consequently driven, theoretically, to the same problems and solutions to which material interest and social position drive the latter in practice. This is, in general, the relationship between the political and literary representatives of a class and the class they represent.

National differences and antagonism between peoples are daily more and more vanishing, owing to the development of the bourgeoisie, to freedom of commerce, to the world market, to uniformity in the mode of production and in the conditions of life corresponding thereto.

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.

The development of Modern Industry, therefore, cuts from under its feet the very foundation on which the bourgeoisie produces and appropriates products. What the bourgeoisie, therefore, produces, above all, is its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.

In proportion as the bourgeoisie, i.e., capital, is developed, in the same proportion is the proletariat, the modern working class, developed—a class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increases capital. These labourers, who must sell themselves piece-meal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market.

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. Conservation of the old modes of production in unaltered form, was, on the contrary, the first condition of existence for all earlier industrial classes.

Lorsque le véritable but fut atteint, c'est-à-dire lorsque fut réalisée la transformation bourgeoise de la société anglaise, Locke évinça Habacuc.

La burguesía … ha creado fuerzas productivas mucho más colosales y masivas que todas las pasadas generaciones juntas, …¿Cuál de los pasados siglos pudo sospechar siquiera que en el seno del trabajo social dormitasen tantas y tales fuerzas productivas?

The bourgeoisie . . . has created enormous cities, has greatly increased the urban population as compared with the rural, and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life. Just as it has made the country dependent on the towns, so it has made barbarian and semi-barbarian countries dependent on the civilized ones, nations of peasants on nations of bourgeois, the East on the West.

The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation.

The essential condition for the existence and sway of the bourgeoisie class,is the formation and augmentation of capital; the condition for capital is wage-labor.

No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.