Whenever someone says “the bourgeoisie” I immediately tune out the rest of whatever they have to say lol I'm sorry I can't help it
Using big foreign words that nobody even knows how to spell is just a signal to me that you don't really care about the working class, sorry bae I'm a trash American I kno
why don't… why don't you just say… “the wealthy”… i've never understand…
IMO it was meant to get around the "you're just jealous about not having won the capitalism lottery" feel with academic concept instead
or maybe to distinguish between the complacent rich and the woke rich?
don't really know :\ but I have been accused in the past of being obscurely-wordy in order to "sound impressive" before when I was trying to be precise, so
if I was someone who mattered, I'd probably desperately try to learn more to understand
but I'm nothing
@sydneyfalk it's a very explicitly marxist term though, you'd never hear people on the news using it because it is very associated with communism. so it *feels* like (dunno how true this is) it's just a performative in-phrase to demonstrate you're a True Communist and not one of those fake “progressives” or whatever.
it's also a french and german term so it could be that it means something more specific there and that distinction is just lost for me here in the States.
@u2764
Hello, french here.
In our history we have had two kinds (2 classes in marxist) of «wealthy people who run the society and exploit the poor» : the nobles in feudalism and the bourgeois in capitalism. So at one point it was necesary (? spelling) to have that distinction.
As of the distinction a bourgeois needs to be a capitalist whereas a rich can just have inherited.
«Bourgeoisie» is kinda dated now though.
Anyway I hope that was useful and I didn't sound to pedantic