Facts Quote by Melchor Lim

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

— Karl Marx

Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity,…

— Rosa Luxemburg

Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.

— Theodor Adorno

The evolution of a bourgeoisie is a healthy phenomenon when it grows and prospers thanks to bourgeois values: hard work, honesty, personal responsibility.

— Anne Applebaum

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

— Thomas Mann

Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the enlightenment, that which does not…

— Theodor Adorno

The bourgeois are other people.

— Jules Renard

By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the…

— Friedrich Engels

“The great bourgeois revolutions of modern times offered an ideology of sweeping political reconstitution, but in reality they merely certified the social dominance of…

— Murray Bookchin

Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future -- if mankind is to have a future

— Ayn Rand

The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“More specific material relating to the bourgeois state will be found in subsequent volumes. This approach is of a piece with Marx’s. One must…

— Hal Draper