Bourgeoisie
group · 2 works · 2 mentions · 7 anchored passages
bourgeoisie · bourgeois · capitalist · middle-class owner of property · ruling class
in the texts
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
The French middle class, rarely intermarrying with the noblesse.
and in France, in spite of all formal institutions, marriages between a person belonging to the noblesse and a person belonging to the bourgeoisie (distinguished roughly from one another by the particle ‘de’) are wonderfully rare, though they are not unknown.
The Communist Manifesto
The capitalist owning class whose property relations and ideology Communism seeks to abolish.
If the proletariat during its contest with the bourgeoisie is compelled, by the force of circumstances, to organise itself as a class, if, by means of a revolution, it makes itself the ruling class, and, as such, sweeps away by force the old conditions of production, then it will, along with these conditions, have swept away the conditions for the existence of class antagonisms and of classes gene …
You must, therefore, confess that by “individual” you mean no other person than the bourgeois, than the middle-class owner of property.
The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degrees, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the State, *i.