The bourgeoisie (/ˌbʊərʒwɑːˈziː/ BOOR-zhwah-ZEE, French: [buʁʒwazi] ) are a class of business owners and merchants which emerged in the Late Middle Ages...

Petite bourgeoisie (French pronunciation: [pətit(ə) buʁʒwazi], literally 'small bourgeoisie'; also anglicised as petty bourgeoisie) is a term that refers...

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (French: Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie) is a 1972 comedy-drama film directed by Luis Buñuel from a screenplay...

Épater la bourgeoisie or épater le (or les) bourgeois is a French phrase that became a rallying cry for the French Decadent poets of the late 19th century...

dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, enacts regulations that actively support the interests of its true constituency, the bourgeoisie (such as bailing out...

Mash with Laurent Konrad. Their first and only single, "C'est beau la bourgeoisie", was a successful club single in a number of European countries. It...

the former two. The advent of commerce introduced a new player, the bourgeoisie, within the peasantry, catalyzing a power shift through revolutions,...

Social classes in Italy are bourgeoisie, white-collar middle class, urban petite bourgeoisie, rural petite bourgeoisie, urban working class and rural working...

cantons of Switzerland, the bourgeoisie is both a form of local community right and a personal right. The system of bourgeoisie stems from medieval urban...

their immediate families that formed the social class of the medieval bourgeoisie. Entry into burgher status varied from country to country and city to...

Dance of the Headless Bourgeoisie is the eighth full-length album released by Canadian punk rock band Nomeansno. It was initially released on Alternative...

Rêveuse bourgeoisie ("Dreamy bourgeoisie") is a 1937 novel by the French writer Pierre Drieu La Rochelle. It tells the story of a declining middle-class...

socialist and the bourgeoisie was virtually nonexistent, class struggle was over. Mao instead warned against the small remaining bourgeoisie and lingering...

counterposes a comprador bourgeoisie, perceived as the serving the interests of foreign imperial powers, to a national bourgeoisie, which is considered as...

tradition often refer to the capitalist state as the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. Thinkers in the instrumental Marxist tradition stress the role of policymakers...

"petty-bourgeoisie". Marxist writers have used the term in two distinct but related ways. In the first sense, it is used for the bourgeoisie (the urban...

means of production, and are thus members of either the middle class, or bourgeoisie, or the working and underclasses, or proletariat. This is regarded by...

word bourgeoisie, it follows Karl Marx's concept of the lumpenproletariat, a rejected underclass that sides readily with the elite bourgeoisie. The term...

means of production, which belong to the class of business owners, the bourgeoisie. Karl Marx argued that this capitalist oppression gives the proletariat...

struggle against the owners of the means of production, the 'bourgeoisie'. The bourgeoisie, through the "constant revolutionising of production [and] uninterrupted...

peasantry and the working class, while about 10% came from the petty bourgeoisie. Privates were usually promoted directly to the rank of sergeant and...

exploiting the proletariat. They subdivide as bourgeoisie and the petite bourgeoisie. Petite bourgeoisie: those who work and can afford to buy little labour...

Milan (commonly abbreviated to Inter) was seen as the club of the Milan bourgeoisie (nicknamed bauscia, a Milanese term meaning "braggart"), whereas Milan...

century, lawyers, doctors, estate agents and government officials formed a bourgeoisie with sizeable houses. In the late 18th century, slate quarrying began...

French was originally the official language used by the nobility and the bourgeoisie, especially after the rejection of the Dutch monarchy. French progressively...

in their criticism of the Communist states during the Cold War. Red bourgeoisie is a pejorative synonym for the term new class, crafted by leftist critics...

capitalist class — the bourgeoisie — use cultural institutions to maintain power in capitalist societies. In Gramsci's view, the bourgeoisie develops a hegemonic...

class which aims to overcome class antagonism between proletariat and bourgeoisie by appealing to national unity. It is seen as a distraction from engaging...

form of the Russian language was that of the nobility and the urban bourgeoisie. Russian peasants, the great majority of the population, continued to...

the proletariat work but do not own the means of production, and the bourgeoisie, those who invest and live off the surplus generated by the proletariat's...