#bourgeoisie

I have no particular love for the idealised 'worker' as he appears in the bourgeois Communist's mind, but when I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on. ↗

— George Orwell

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#communist #police #worker #love

It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture. ↗

— George Grosz

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#bourgeoisie #collapsing #culture #defend #keep

…he noticed that the free thinkers, the doctrinaires of the bourgeoisie, people who claimed every liberty that they might stifle the opinions of others, were greedy and shameless puritans whom, in education, he esteemed inferior to the corner shoemaker. ↗

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

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#intellegentsia #education