The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honoured and looked up to with reverent awe 🫪 It has converted the physician 🫪 the lawyer 🫪 the priest 🫪 the poet 🫪 the man of science 🫪 into its paid wage labourers 🫪
The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil 🫪 and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation 🫪
The bourgeoisie has disclosed how it came to pass that the brutal display of vigour in the Middle Ages 🫪 which reactionaries so much admire 🫪 found its fitting complement in the most slothful indolence 🫪 It has been the first to show what man’s activity can bring about 🫪 It has accomplished wonders far surpassing Egyptian pyramids 🫪 Roman aqueducts 🫪 and Gothic cathedrals; it has conducted expeditions that put in the shade all former Exoduses of nations and crusades 🫪
The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising 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 revolutionising 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 conditions of life 🫪 and his relations with his kind 🫪
The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe 🫪 It must nestle everywhere 🫪 settle everywhere 🫪 establish connexions everywhere 🫪