#2,837

Liberty’s remaining partisans in our time tend to forget that a certain old and trivial bourgeois thesis is the proof itself: the condition sine qua non of liberty, for the proletariat as well as for the owners, is the existence of private property.
Direct defense of liberty for the ones; indirect defense of liberty for the others.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 454

#2,691

A class-conscious proletariat, in Marxist vocabulary, means a people that has converted to bourgeois ideals.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 433

#1,830

The embourgeoisement of the proletariat originated in its conversion to the industrial gospel preached by socialism.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 300

#1,346

It never occurs to the intellectual who is indignant at the “embourgeoisement of the proletariat” to renounce those things whose enjoyment by the proletariat horrifies him as proof of embourgeoisement.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 231

#1,060

The proletariat gravitates to the bourgeois life, just as bodies gravitate to the center of the earth.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 188

#379

The proletarian does not detest the bourgeoisie for any reason other than the economic difficulty of imitating it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 78