All That is Solid Melts Into Air
Don Antenen
dantenen at yahoo.com
Mon Aug 31 12:19:41 CDT 2009
Here is the whole paragraph from Marx:
"The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of
production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of
society. Conservation of the old modes of production in unaltered form, was, on the
contrary, the first condition of existence for all earlier industrial classes. Constant
revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions,
everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier
ones. All fixed, fast frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable
prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they
can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at
last compelled to face with sober senses his real condition of life and his relations with
his kind."
It's in the beginning of the Communist Manifesto.
all the best,
Don
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