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Perhaps you're looking at the 18th century definition of 'bourgeoisie', which commonly means middle class. However, the clue was the use of 'proletariat' which
by nullindividual 3y ago
Perhaps you're looking at the 18th century definition of 'bourgeoisie', which commonly means middle class.
However, the clue was the use of 'proletariat' which is the wage-earning class while 'bourgeoisie' would be the class which owns the means to production, in a Marxist context.
- readthenotes1 3y agoYep. Though he's not really rentier, either--he's more like meta-rentier, and probably closer to aristocracy (though I don't know marks isn't well enough to know if he had that as a separate group)
- dragonwriter 3y ago> Perhaps you're looking at the 18th century definition of 'bourgeoisie', which commonly means middle class. Its the same class that became the capitalist ruling class; just prior to the effective displacement of the titled nobility as a center of power as a distinct class the bourgeoisie was a relatively narrow elite that was the middle class between the titled nobility and the peasantry, in much the same way that the petit bourgeoisie under capitalism is a relatively narrow elite when looking at society as a whole, but still the “middle class” between the haut bourgeois pure/major capitalist and the wage-labor-dependent proletariat.