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Ragna Raven's avatar

He might have left the forum of bourgeoisie with his pockets stuffed full but will not be able to go out freely and spent it as people en masse will lynch him. He is done for, back stabbed by "his own." This is how it works: The creeps will kill each other in the end.

He is a very hated man worldwide. Very. Maybe he should try a bug diet, he needs protein to fend off all the hatred directed towards him - but instead he runs off like a scared puppy.

Ha ha ha ha.

Klaus, you are and always were everything a man is not: A coward.

The Nestlé guy has chosen the same fate. Good luck with that, a_ _hole.

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Merlinstruction.com's avatar

Bourgeois is not that hard of a term, it is french for burgher, or citydweller. The Bourgeoisie is the urban inhabitants, the artisan, shopkeeper and landlords, and ultimately, the banker and financier.

In essence, the city is built around the market, in medieval times this was explicit, the king Established a city by giving a charter to hold a market, and thus the bourgeois is defined by market activity.

This is in contrast to the other 3 classes, the yeoman peasantry who are defined by the country itselt and by working the soil, the priestly class who are defined by God and the nobility that is defined by the sword.

What Marx described is generally the movements of society from one where the priests and nobility defined the societal outlook on the world, ie general world view, to one where the bourgeois defines it.

Instead of a world of Honour and God, we get a world defined by "market forces". Instead of God bringing a good harvest by givinh us sun and rain, we get the market setting prices through it's mystical forces. Instead of being punished for our wickedness, we are punished by the market forces. We are poor as a result of our poor character while the rich are wealthy because of their inate superiority in the eyes of a just Market that has deemed their value.

This is what bourgeois means, and the only escape is one into the other three outlooks, honourable warrior nobility, humble servant of God or Nature's gardener. Or into King which balances the 4 elemental forces, the 4 social castes within himself.

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