Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century.... The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become ...abstractions: the petite-bourgeoisie, in contrast, is everywhere, you can see it everywhere, even in the areas of the bourgeois and the proletariat, what's left of them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is the corpse of the bourgeoisie that separates us. With us, it is that class that is the carrier of the chromosome of banality....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art of the princes or ...the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exis...t. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The bourgeoisie loves so-called "positive" types and novels with happy endings since they lull one into thinking that it is fine t...o simultaneously acquire capital and maintain one's innocence, to be a beast and still be happy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By ...proletariat, the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, "culture...." It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing "art" to defend their collapsing culture.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have got to stop the nervous Nellies and the Toms from going to the Man's place. I don't believe in killing, but a good whippin...g behind the bushes wouldn't hurt them.... These bourgeoisie Negroes aren't helping. It's the ghetto Negroes who are leading the way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times--the stupefaction of... the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie--seem attractive by comparison.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »