Everybody knows Engels and Kropotkin (technically not bourgeoisie I know but it counts) but what about some other notable historical examples?
Do you know any? Are you one?
Marx speculated on the stock market.
He never had any money of his own. It all came from Engels, who had inherited wealth. Marx did no work, he was an intellectual.
Heaps, most revolutionaries were either Bourgois or Intelligentsia/proto-PMC.
Sankara was the son of a colonial collaborationist cop FFS. He nearly became a Roman Catholic priest (shades of Stalin there) and joined the post-independence military
I forget who said it but there is a quote from a Latin American organizer about their background being from worth that’s basically “it’s hard to plan a Revolution when you’re a slave who is hungry”
Alexandra Kollontai, Soviet Marxist feminist, was born into nobility and lived as a champagne socialist throughout the pre-revolutionary days.
