Revolution Quote by Brinton Crane

“The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms. It has but established…

— Karl Marx

“When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast association of…

— Karl Marx

“The exaggeration of the definiteness and importance of the dividing line between the capitalist class in that sense and the proletariat was surpassed only…

— Joseph Alois Schumpeter

“Antagonism breeds extremism.”

— Émile Zola

“Our new battle is not with overt Marxist tyranny, but with something more subtle—an irreligious government that wants to agglomerate ever more power over…

— John Zmirak

“political parties representing rival bourgeois factions create the illusion of choice but unite to repress the working class.”

— Ken Follett

“Marxism was and is a class analysis, pitting economic classes against each other in a zero-sum competition. In that competition, the stronger parties would…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

“But in many other cases, just the opposite takes place, and the process of political centralization also ushers in an era of greater absolutism.”

— Daron Acemoğlu

“Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses, however, this distinct feature: it has simplified class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and…

— Karl Marx

“Those who claim to be Marxists cannot confine themselves to condemning or deploring political acts; they have also to explain them. Regrets and wishes…

— Charles Bettelheim