• spectre [he/him]
        hexagon
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        3 years ago

        bourgeoisie = noun for people who build wealth through means of ownership, especially the thousand or so billionaires who have the highest concentration of wealth

        bourgeois = adjective describing the above, whether literally or culturally (like "boujee"): "making money from the factory that you've been to is bourgeois." "dressing fancy and going to an opera is bourgeois"

        Like our comrade mentioned, we also using it semi-ironically or unironically toward the privileges of the American "middle class", some of which can accurately be described as "bourgeois"

        • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          In leftist spaces it's pretty much never used that way and when radicalizing libs it's one of the FIRST distinctions I bring up cause it can make richer people feel like part of the thing. Bring em in and then make them feel guilty about being rich, then they give money to leftist shit instead of just taking their chips off the left table. We don't need libs, but we do need their money.

      • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I think that definition was coined when upper class meant "literal aristocrats and royalty."

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        What? No, that's not how class distinction works for Marxists. Middle class is borderline meaningless.