It happens that society is saved as often as the circle of its ruling class is narrowed, as often as a more exclusive interest asserts itself over the general. Every demand for the most simple bourgeois financial reform, for the most ordinary liberalism, for the most commonplace republicanism, for the flattest democracy is forthwith punished as an assault upon society and is branded as Socialism.


The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (ed. 2008)

Karl Marx Quotes

It happens that society is saved as often as the circle of its ruling class is narrowed, as often as a more exclusive interest asserts itself over...

It happens that society is saved as often as the circle of its ruling class is narrowed, as often as a more exclusive interest asserts itself over...

It happens that society is saved as often as the circle of its ruling class is narrowed, as often as a more exclusive interest asserts itself over...

It happens that society is saved as often as the circle of its ruling class is narrowed, as often as a more exclusive interest asserts itself over...