...to the United States had embarked on their journeys from this very port. Chapter 3 CITY OF REBELLION All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations...

..."uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation," how it sweeps away "all fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train...of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions. ."40 Given his critical stance toward what has been the dominant political tendency in China since...

...to the new, as that cunning old bushy-beard wrote, all fixed, fast, frozen relations are swept away, all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and a man has to face up to his real choices in life and his relations with others. For in this new world,...

...conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real condition of life and his relations with...

...voice. 170 Karl Marx wrote of 'that single unconscionable freedom - Free Trade' when he observed that '[a]ll that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned'. 171 Unless there is remembrance of the historical constitution of globalisation, the globalisation...

...Marx's description of the bewildering change brought about by the dynamic of capitalist production ('all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned'; Marx, in Berman, 1982), to Herman's apocalyptic declaration that to be modern is to live in an environment...

...celebrate the advent of capitalism as the new revolutionary force which builds a world in its own image: "all that is solid melts into air; all that is holy is profaned." A former leftist himself, Prasad is familiar with Marxian texts and draws quite often from them in...

...physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science into its paid wagelaborers." Further, "all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profane." Capitalism "has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation" (Marx and Engels...

...conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train...melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life and his relations with...

...social reality as solid. What was melting were the illusions people had accumulated. Marx observed "All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and men at last are forced to face with sober senses the real conditions of their lives and their relations with their fellow men."8 The...