On bourgeois ground … change is impossible anyway even if it were desired. In fact, bourgeois interest would like to draw every other interest oppose… - Ernst Bloch

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On bourgeois ground … change is impossible anyway even if it were desired. In fact, bourgeois interest would like to draw every other interest opposed to it into its own failure; so, in order to drain the new life, it makes its own agony apparently fundamental, apparently ontological. The futility of bourgeois existence is extended to be that of the human situation in general, of existence per se.

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About Ernst Bloch

Ernst Simon Bloch (July 8, 1885 – August 4, 1977) was a German Marxist philosopher. He was a Marxist philosopher, however with a Liberal mind.

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Alternative Names: Ernst Simon Bloch Karl Knerz
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