Don Colacho’s Aphorisms

Those who insist on being up to date with today’s fashion are less irritating than those who try too hard when they do not feel that they ar...

The results of modern “liberation” make us remember with nostalgia the abolished “bourgeois hypocrisies.” Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Sel...

Liberty’s remaining partisans in our time tend to forget that a certain old and trivial bourgeois thesis is the proof itself: the condition ...

The wealth of a merchant, of an industrialist, of a financier, is aesthetically inferior to wealth in land and flocks. Escolios a un Texto I...

The embourgeoisement of Communist societies is, ironically, modern man’s last hope. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 450

The state has not behaved with discretion and restraint except when it has been watched by rich bourgeoisies. Escolios a un Texto Implícito:...

A class-conscious proletariat, in Marxist vocabulary, means a people that has converted to bourgeois ideals. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: ...

It turns out it is impossible to convince a businessman that a profitable activity can be immoral. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección ...

The leftist obviously refuses to understand that the conclusions of bourgeois thought are the principles of leftist thought. Escolios a un T...

Identifying the bourgeois class with the bourgeois mentality tricks the enemies of the bourgeoisie. The liquidation of a bourgeois class in ...

For more than a century there has been no upper class. Barely even a more pretentious segment of the middle class. Escolios a un Texto Implí...

The bourgeoisie, in the feudal framework, settles in small urban centers where it becomes structured and civilized. With the break-up of thi...

Socialism arose as nostalgia for the social unity destroyed by bourgeois atomism. But it did not understand that social unity is not the to...

With the disappearance of the upper class, there is nowhere to take refuge from the smugness of the middle class and the rudeness of the low...

Whoever denies the bourgeoisie its virtues has been infected with the worst of its vices. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 314

The embourgeoisement of the proletariat originated in its conversion to the industrial gospel preached by socialism. Escolios a un Texto Imp...

It is not so much the plebeian merriment that revolutions unleash which frightens the reactionary as the zealously bourgeois order that they...

“ Être absolumente moderne ” is the characteristic desire of the petit bourgeois. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 297

A youth’s revolutionary activity is the rite of passage between adolescence and the bourgeoisie. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , ...

“A classless society” is one where there is neither aristocracy nor people. Where only the bourgeois moves around freely. Escolios a un Tex...