Note 996 — Chapter III · : MARXISM

“The bourgeoisie, historically, has played a most revolutionary part.… 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.… 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.” (Manifesto, § 1.)

Besides, the Marxians themselves have tried to prove that capital is actively undermining its own existence, which is surely the ne plus ultra of the revolutionary temperament.