Community Quote by Murray Bookchin

The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder…

— Karl Marx

Where the bourgeois economists saw a relation between things (the exchange of one commodity for another) Marx revealed a relation between people.

— Vladimir Lenin

“Comradeship, dignity, amorosity, love, solidarity, fraternity, friendship, ethics: all these names stand in contrast to the commodified, monetised relations of capitalism, all describe relations…

— John Holloway

“Capitalism, far from affording "privileges" to the middle classes, tends to degrade them more abjectly than any other stratum in society. The system deploys…

— Murray Bookchin

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

— Thomas Mann

Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.

— C. L. R. James

Through the last centuries, the effort of capitalism has been to take all the things that were human relations and turn them into monetary…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

“to the good of the other person and to the relationship itself. Social historians tell us that increasingly the values of the market are…

— Timothy Keller

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

“Relationality [is] not only [a] descriptive or historical fact of our formation, but also an ongoing normative dimension of our social and political lives,…

— Judith Butler

Bourgeois political economy ... never gets to see man who is its real subject. It disregards the essence of man and his history and…

— Herbert Marcuse

“Nonetheless, many people, and especially intellectuals, passionately loathe capitalism. As they see it, this ghastly mode of society’s economic organization has brought about nothing…

— Ludwig Von Mises