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" The bourgeoisie has subjected the country to the rule of the towns. It has created enormous cities, has greatly increased the urban population as compared with the rural, and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural... "
Political Science Quarterly - Page 664
1908
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Class: Critical Concepts, Volume 1

John Scott - 1996 - 526 pages
...cities, has greatly increased the urban population as compared with the rural, and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life. Just as it has made the country dependent on the towns, so it has made barbarian and semi-barbarian...
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The Theoretical Evolution of International Political Economy: A Reader

George T. Crane, Abla Amawi - 1997 - 354 pages
...cities, has greatly increased the urban population as compared with the rural, and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life. Just as it has made the country dependent on the towns, so it has made barbarian and semi-barbarian...
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Marxism: The Inner Dialogues, Volume 1

Michael Curtis - 1997 - 404 pages
...all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilization." By creating great cities it "had rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life." It had, in a word, "subjected nature's forces to man." "What earlier century," Marx asked, "had even...
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Landprints: Reflections on Place and Landscape

George Seddon - 1998 - 300 pages
...achievements of the bourgeoisie. Industrial production in the nineteenth century had already 'rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life' and would in time spread the same type of consciousness throughout the world. The peasants' mode of...
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Karl Marx

Roberto Marchionatti - 1998 - 320 pages
...establishments, Number of wage-earners, 1890 1900 Increase % 355,415 4,251,613 512,254 5,308,406 44.1 24.9 consider the Marxian doctrine and the facts regarding...considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life."69 In the second part of the third volume of Capital Engels expresses the hope that the virgin...
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Social Class and Stratification: Classic Statements and Theoretical Debates

Rhonda F. Levine - 1998 - 286 pages
...cities, has greatly increased the urban population as compared with the rural, and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life. Just as it has made the country dependent on the towns, so it has made barbarian and semi-barbarian...
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The Communist Manifesto and Its Relevance for Today

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels - 1998 - 80 pages
...cities, has greatly increased the urban population as compared with the rural, and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life. Just as it has made the country dependent on the towns, so it has made barbarian and semi-barbarian...
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Modernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents

Vassiliki Kolocotroni - 1998 - 658 pages
...cities, has greatly increased the urban population as compared with the rural, and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life. Just as it has made the country dependent on the towns, so it has made barbarian and semi-barbarian...
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A World to Win: Essays on the Communist Manifesto

Prakash Karat - 2011 - 159 pages
...cities, has greatly increased the urban population as compared with the rural, and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life. Just as it has made the country dependent on the towns, so it has made barbarian and semi-barbarian...
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A Great Place to Raise Kids: Interpretation, Science and the Rural-Urban Debate

Kieran Bonner - 1999 - 260 pages
...cities, has greatly increased the urban populations as compared with the rural, and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life." Here and in The German Ideology (1970, 39-95), Marx argues that rural life nurtures a subservience...
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