...become bourgeois themselves. In one word, it creates a world after its own image. . . . The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created...application of chemistry to industry and agriculture, steam navigation, railways, electric telegraphs, clearing of whole continents for cultivation, canalization...

...each defined by its mode of production' (Leftwich, p. 37). Technology was extremely important to Marx. 'Subjection of Nature's forces to man, machinery,...continents for cultivation, canalization of rivers . . .what earlier century has even presentiment that such productive forces slumbered in the lap of...

...compared with precapitalist social formations; thus Marx' and Engels' praise for the bourgeoisie, which "during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has...forces than have all preceding generations together" (Marx and Engels 1998, 10); thus also Lukacs' quip. On the other hand, socialist revolution is not...

...celebrated the latter phenomenon even as he argued that it was accompanied by alienation: [Capitalism] has created more massive and more colossal productive...together. Subjection of Nature's forces to man, machinery, applications of chemistry to industry and agriculture, steamnavigation, railways, electric telegraphs,...

...forward technical progress was the key to economic advance in all parts of the world: The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created...and more colossal productive forces than have all the preceding generations together. Subjection of Nature's forces to man, machinery, application of...

...States economy that echoes sentiments of Marx from the Communist Manifesto: The bourgeoisie, during its scarce one hundred years, has created more massive...forces than have all preceding generations together . . . what earlier century had even a presentiment that such productive forces slumbered in the lap...

...(the "brutal exploitation" and others), and this has been achieved already. We read, The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created...telegraphs, clearing of whole continents for cultivation, canalisation of rivers, whole populations conjured out of the ground — what earlier century had even...

...thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society ... The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created...telegraphs, clearing of whole continents for cultivation, canalisation of rivers, whole populations conjured out of the ground - what earlier century had even...

...where Marx wrote his panegyric to the bourgeoisie: The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarce 1 00 years, has created more massive and more colossal...telegraphs, clearing of whole continents for cultivation, canalisation of rivers, whole populations conjured out of the ground. What earlier century had even...

...communication, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilization. . . . The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created...application of chemistry to industry and agriculture, steam navigation, railways, electric telegraphs, clearing of whole continents for cultivation, canalization...