“Like every 'intellectual', a philosophy teacher is a petty bourgeois. When he opens his mouth, it is petty-bourgeois ideology that speaks: its resources and ruses are infinite.”
Source: Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays (1968), "Philosophy as a Revolutionary Weapon", p. 2
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“Existentialism is bourgeois ideology in the hour of its defeat.”
Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), p. 63

Speech at the Chinese Communist Party’s National Conference on Propaganda Work (March 12, 1957), 1st pocket edition, pp. 26-27
Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book)
Source: The Political Economy Of Growth (1957), Chapter One, A General View, p. 4

“A brave man scorns to quarrel once a day;
Like Hectors in at every petty fray.”
Prologue
All for Love (1678)
Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), pp. 27-28
Source: The Bourgeois: Catholicism vs. Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century France (1927), p. 177
Source: The Bourgeois: Catholicism vs. Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century France (1927), p. 171

Conclusion: political Criticism, p. 174
1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983)