Tao Te Ching

“The bourgeoisie has subjected the country to the rule of the towns... It compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode of production; it compels them to introduce what it calls civilization into their midst, i.e., to become bourgeois themselves. It creates a world in its own image.”

— Karl Marx 1818 – 1883 CE
from Communist Manifesto