F.V. Konstantinov > Quotes

“The ideologists of the bourgeoisie - the bourgeois economists - failed to perceive the real nature of the capitalist mode of production and capitalist society because their class interests and class narrow-mindedness made them regard the historically transient social form as being eternal, natural and supra-historical. They could not discern behind the relations of things - commodities - the relations of people. Bourgeois ideologists are in the power of commodity fetishism. They attribute to things and products of human activity, supra-sensuous, mystical properties. This fetishism, this false viewpoint, inherent in capitalist society, bourgeois ideologists extend to the entire domain of social relations: to the relations of economy and politics, economy and law, being and consciousness. Bourgeois ideology represents these relations in a false topsy-turvy way.”
― F.V. Konstantinov, Role of advanced ideas in development of society

“Without production there can be no society. Discontinuance of production would doom society.”
― F.V. Konstantinov, Role of advanced ideas in development of society

“A revolution requires, above all, corresponding material pre-requisites, objective conditions, maturity of economic, social and political contradictions. But apart from these objective conditions the success of a revolution depends also on a subjective factor, namely, on the ability of the revolutionary class to solve the existing contradictions.”
― F.V. Konstantinov, Role of advanced ideas in development of society

“The history of human society is the history of the development of the productive forces and types of relations of production which succeed one another.”
― F.V. Konstantinov, Role of advanced ideas in development of society

“In 1812 Russia was invaded by the Napoleonic hordes. The entire nation, headed by the leading Russians of those days, rose in defense of the country. The rout of the arrogant foe before whom all Western Europe trembled, evoked a wave of national consciousness”
― F.V. Konstantinov, Role of advanced ideas in development of society

“Man can discover, get to know and utilize in the interests of society the laws of nature and the laws of development of society but he can neither annul nor abolish them.”
― F.V. Konstantinov, Role of advanced ideas in development of society

“Under capitalism, because of its antagonistic nature and anarchy of production, it is not men that dominate the process of production but, on the contrary, it is the process of production that dominates men.”
― F.V. Konstantinov, Role of advanced ideas in development of society