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- Nov 07, 2020
Bourgeoisie Quotes
This bourgeoisie quotes collection draws on classic class-struggle language to examine power, taxation, and cultural control. Some lines describe crushing the bourgeoisie through the combined weight of taxation and inflation, while others trace how penal law was shaped entirely by the bourgeoisie as a tactical tool against ordinary people. There's a broader cultural argument too, that the bourgeoisie and petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves with 'culture' itself against a rising working class. Together these quotes offer a pointed, historically grounded look at class conflict and economic power.
These bourgeoisie quotes examine class struggle, taxation, and the cultural tools of economic power. For related thoughts on resistance, see our Against quotes collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Penal law was not created by the common people, nor by the peasantry, nor by the proletariat, but entirely by the bourgeoisie as an important tactical weapon in this system of divisions which they wished to introduce.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Integration is the biggest con job ever pulled on any group of people, any nationality in the world. It was a plot by white liberals to gain black political power for themselves and their wild ideas, and for a few black bourgeoisie who were paid to exercise leverage as black spokesmen.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, 'culture.'
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am of the international upper class, the Swedish petit bourgeoisie of Jewish extraction with poor language skills, a conveyor of a few expressions and faces, with some intonation that combines ancient human experience with timely coquetry.
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- Nov 07, 2020