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Capitalist class, in Marxism
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bourgeoisie
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bourgeoisie \Bour*geoi*sie"\, n. [F.] The French middle class, particularly such as are concerned in, or dependent on, trade.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the social class between the lower and upper classes [syn: middle class ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE industrial ▪ For although the great mass of its membership was working class, it also embraced an increasing section of the industrial bourgeoisie . ▪ Within the Alliance interests of local petit bourgeoisie and ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1707, "body of freemen in a French town; the French middle class," from French bourgeois , from Old French burgeis, borjois (12c.) "town dweller" (as distinct from "peasant"), from borc "town, village," from Frankish *burg "city" (see borough ). Communist ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (cx historical English) A class of citizens who were wealthier members of the third estate. 2 (context Marxism English) The capitalist class.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The bourgeoisie (Eng.: ; ) is a polysemous French term because it can mean: a sociologically defined class, especially in contemporary times, referring to people with a certain cultural and financial capital belonging to the middle or upper stratum of the ...
Usage examples of bourgeoisie.
The bourgeoisie, which for decades had exalted and eulogized tyrannicide, now was filled with terrible rage.
So long as the bourgeoisie are the dominant class, literature must be bourgeois.
And apart from the class struggle in its ordinary sense there are deeper jealousies within the bourgeoisie than foreigners sometimes realize.
The Spanish bourgeoisie saw their chance of crushing the labour movement, and took it, aided by the Nazis and by the forces of reaction all over the world.
Although for the German bourgeoisie it was not the time to back the fascists, they supplied them with just enough funds to keep them in existence.
As a consequence the German bourgeoisie decided to put its full weight behind the fascist movement.
Capitalism in crisis, however, forces the bourgeoisie to drive down wages to below subsistence levels, to force the worker into a semi-slave existence.
Germany the proletariat had won big concessions from the bourgeoisie during the 1918 revolution.
Due to its intermediate social position and heterogeneous make-up, the middle class is incapable of playing an independent political role: it is forced to either support the bourgeoisie or the proletariat.
But the German bourgeoisie were able to make enormous profits from the inflation, while the mass of the population faced starvation and severe hardship.
He wrote repeatedly to Petrograd demanding a break with the bourgeoisie and the policy of defencism.
But in order to do this, it is first necessary to conquer the international bourgeoisie, to compel it to give us these tractors.
They placed sentinels to guard the Bank of France, where the bourgeoisie kept the stolen money.
It pleased him to set himself outside it, with his little vices and extravagances, as a queer fellow or a genius, but he never had his domicile in those provinces of life where the bourgeoisie had ceased to exist.
He who is developed far beyond the level possible to the bourgeois, he who knows the bliss of meditation no less than the gloomy joys of hatred and self-hatred, he who despises law, virtue and common sense, is nevertheless captive to the bourgeoisie and cannot escape it.