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Full Idea
A part of the bourgeoisie is desirous of redressing social grievances, in order to secure the continued existence of bourgeois society.
Clarification
The 'bourgeoisie' are the middle classes
Gist of Idea
Many of the bourgeois rights grievances are a form of self-defence
Source
K Marx / F Engels (The Communist Manifesto [1848], §3.II)
Book Ref
Marx,K./Engels,F.: 'The Communist Manifesto', ed/tr. Taylor,A.J.P. [Penguin 1973], p.113
A Reaction
…so don't try being nice to us. No TRUE bourgeois would actually want to help the proletariate… Nevertheless, he is probably largely right. Do we want the poor to suffer? No. Do we want them to be as rich as us? No!
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| 5302 | Modern governments are just bourgeois management committees [Marx/Engels] |
| 5301 | The history of all existing society is the history of class struggles [Marx/Engels] |
| 5306 | The free development of each should be the condition for the free development of all [Marx/Engels] |
| 5305 | Communists want to rescue education from the ruling class [Marx/Engels] |
| 5304 | Communism aims to abolish not all property, but bourgeois property [Marx/Engels] |
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| 21998 | Bourgeois interests create our morality, law and religion [Marx/Engels] |