The bourgeoisie is the only revolutionary class that has ever won; and that it is also the only class for which the development of the economy was both the cause and the consequence of its taking control of society. Guy Debord, La société du spectacle §87
The bourgeoisie traded in being for having, and so destroyed the
mythical unity of being and the world as the basis of power. The totality fell
into fragments. Raoul Vaneigem, Traité de savoir-vivre à l’usage des jeunes générations