Petite bourgeois vs. haute bourgeois is no new distinction. (Also entrepreneurs are different from small businesses. Entrepreneurs make attempts at new big bu

Petite bourgeois vs. haute bourgeois is no new distinction. (Also entrepreneurs are different from small businesses. Entrepreneurs make attempts at new big businesses, vie for new monopolies, etc.) > in the telling of Left Twitter, liberals are basically centrists and centrists might as well be right-wing -- yet what “The Left” believes is, by and large, pretty much what I believed as a “liberal” two decades ago I think probably you're not as aware of what leftists believe as you think. Leftists are not using "liberal" in the American sense of the word at all, and "never were." (Like, maybe those specific people were, but "the left" wasn't.)