La bourgeoisie

"The bourgeoisie has played a most revolutionary role in history"

The past

"The bourgeoisie, in its reign of barely a hundred years, has created more massive
and colossal production power than have all previous generations put together.
Subjection of nature's force to man, machinery, application of chemistry to agriculture 
and inductry steam navigation, railways, electric telegraphs, 
dearing of whole ontinents for cultivation, canalization of rivers, 
whole populations conjured out of the ground what earlier had even an intimation
that such productive power slept in the womb of social labor"

The Futur

"Constant revolutionizing of production, unintempted disturbance of all social relations,
everlasting uncertainty and agitation; distinguish the bourgeois epoch
from all earlier times. 
All fixed, fast frozen relationships with their train of venerable ideas 
and opinions are swept away, 
all new-formed ones become obsolete before they can ossify.
All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, 
and men at last are forced to face with sober senses 
the real conditions of their lives and their relations with their fellow men"