Liquid modernity

“Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation . . . All fixed, fast-frozen relationships . . . are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify.”

Zygmunt Bauman?

No: Marx and Engels, in the Communist Manifesto .

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