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Leisure and ‘The Ruins of the Bourgeois World’

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Fate as doom is a familiar and notorious motif in Marxist accounts of bourgeois society. Without doubt the canonical text is The Communist Manifesto with its mordant observations on bourgeois ‘progress’, and its bitter prophecy. ‘What the bourgeoisie produces, above all,’ wrote Marx and Engels,1 ‘is its own gravediggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.’

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Rojek, C. (1989). Leisure and ‘The Ruins of the Bourgeois World’. In: Rojek, C. (eds) Leisure for Leisure. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19527-5_6

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