"All fixed, fast-frozen relationships, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones becomes antiquated 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...the real conditions of their lives and their relations with their fellow men."
Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto

The social conditions of the old society no longer exist for the proletariat. The proletariat is without property; his relation to his wife and childern has no longer anything in common with bourgeios family relations; modern industrial labor, modern subjection to capital, the same in England as in France, in America as in Germany, has stripped him of every trace of national character.
Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto

To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment in an environment that promises us adventure, power, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world -- and, at the same time, that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are.
Marshall Berman, All That is Solid Melts Into Air

"All our invention and progress seem to result in endowing material forces with intellectual life, and stultifying human life into material force."
Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto

�Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.�
Charles Baudelaire