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Bourgeois

adjective

(according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class.

Conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class. Synonyms: conservative, materialistic.

Belonging to the middle class.

noun

A capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise. Synonym: businessperson.

A member of the middle class. Synonym: burgher.

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... Bonaparte" is one of Karl Marx' most profound and most brilliant monographs. It may be considered the best work extant on the philosophy of history, with an eye especially upon the history of the Movement of the Proletariat, together with the bourgeois and other manifestations that accompany the same, and the tactics that such ...

— The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte • Karl Marx

... that Rodrigo's mistress possessed a library, for private collections of books were at that time exceedingly rare in bourgeois houses. A short time after this they were first made possible in Rome by the invention of printing, which was there carried ...

— Lucretia Borgia - According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day • Ferdinand Gregorovius

... shouldnt she do it? The Russian students do it. Women should be as free as men. I'm a fool. I'm so full of your bourgeois morality that I let myself be shocked by the application of my own revolutionary principles. If she likes the man why ...

— Misalliance • George Bernard Shaw

... their heads together and chattered politics as fast as they could. Madame de Flahault is more violent than her husband, and her house is the resort of all the Liberal party. Went afterwards to the Opera and saw Maret, the Duc de Bassano, a stupid elderly bourgeois-looking man, with two very pretty daughters. The battle is to begin in the Chamber on Saturday or Monday on the Address. Talleyrand told me that the next three weeks would be the most important of any period since the Restoration. It is in agitation ...

— The Greville Memoirs - A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William - IV, Volume 1 (of 3) • Charles C. F. Greville

... extract from the Registers of the Parliament of Paris (Nov. 10, 1525) in Dulaure's Histoire de Paris, Paris, 1837, vol. iii. p. 209; and Lalanne's Journal d'un Bourgeois de Paris, Paris, 1854, p. 234. The original of the letter no longer exists, but the authenticity of the text cannot be disputed, as all the more essential portions are quoted in the collective reply of Margaret and Louise of Savoy, which is still extant. ...

— The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. I. (of V.) • Margaret, Queen Of Navarre

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