Bourgeois Quote by Walter Benjamin

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

— Ken Follett

The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but…

— Leon Trotsky

“struggle in place of the old ones. Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses, however, this distinctive feature: it has simplified the class…

— Friedrich Engels

Do the rhetorical quarrels of bourgeois political parties have anything to do with the interests of the humble and downtrodden?

— Mario Vargas Llosa

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.

— Kenneth Koch

“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

The most important quote about poetry and politics that I know is from a different situationist, Guy Debord. He was locked in a debate…

— Joshua Clover

“Believing that, in alliance with the proletariat, they have singled out in capitalism the common enemy, the young abandon their own ground, that of…

— Carla Lonzi

“The poet is a pure spring from which all thirsty souls may drink.”

— Anonymous

Political parties are like poets, born, not made.

— Henry Ford

“Except for the field organizers of strikes, who were pretty tough monkeys and devoted, most of the so-called Communists I met were middle-class, middle-aged…

— John Steinbeck