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Bourgeoisie

Nature

The bourgeoisie is the ruling class of capitalist society which possesses property in the means of production and which exists by exploiting wage labour. The source of income of the bourgeoisie is surplus value, which is created by unpaid labour and is appropriated by the capitalists.

Background

The term denotes someone belonging to the urban middle-class, though in Marxist revolutionary parlance it had the negative connotation of the capital-owning class which the revolutionary proletariat had to overthrow and replace in economic and political power. In contemporary Marxist parlance it is used for the capitalist class as a whole.

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Communism
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Marginalism
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Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(E) Emanations of other problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
  • Society » Class, caste, elites
  • Content quality
    Presentable
     Presentable
    Language
    English
    1A4N
    E7774
    DOCID
    11577740
    D7NID
    156226
    Last update
    Oct 4, 2020