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Quote of the Week: The Petit Bourgeois

The democratic petty bourgeois, far from desiring to overturn the whole of society for the revolutionary proletarian, strives for a change in social conditions which will make the existing society as endurable and comfortable as possible for him.

—Karl Marx 

The bourgeois ... is tolerant. His love for people as they are stems from his hatred of what they might be.

—Theodor Adorno

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