Hilaire Belloc Quotes

The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.

Ever greater grows the mass of the proletariat, ever vaster the army of the unemployed, ever sharper the contrast between oppressors and oppressed, ever fiercer that war of classes between bourgeoisie and proletariat which divides modern society into two hostile camps and is the common characteristic of ever industrial country.

The class struggle is the central conflict of the world; all others are incidental.

In modern capitalism economic exploitation rather than political oppression is the real enemy of the people.

There never has yet existed a wealthy and civilized society in which one portion of the community did not, in point of fact, live on the labor of the other.

Exploitation is not exclusively capitalist, but wealth creation is.

The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley of ties that bound man to his "natural superiors," and left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous "cash payment.

Capitalism cannot survive without a working class, while the working class can flourish a lot more freely without capitalism.

Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.

By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live.

He who before was the money owner, now strides in front as capitalist; the possessor of labor-power follows as his laborer. The one with an air of importance, smirking, intent on business; the other hesitant, like one who is bringing his own hide to market and has nothing to expect but a hiding.

Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.

I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half.

Capitalism is, fundamentally, an economic system that promotes inequality.

Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.

A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created.

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed, class of society, are the same in all countries.

I'm still a marginal figure living from book to book, but, as long as I'm producing labour as a good Marxist prole, I guess I'm satisfied.

When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.

Capitalism did not arise because capitalists stole the land and the workmen's tools, but because it was more efficient than feudalism. It will perish because it is not merely less efficient than socialism, but actually self-destructive.

The wealth which the capitalist appears to give in exchange for the workman's labour was generated neither by the labour nor the riches of the capitalist, but it was originally obtained by the labour of the workman

Every capitalist is your enemy. Every working man is your friend.

I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.

It is the historic mission of the working class to do away with capitalism.