(n.) The French middle class, particularly such as are concerned in, or dependent on, trade.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yet the enemy of the bourgeoisie is impeccably bourgeois, and when I arrived for our meeting at a swanky hotel near the Arc de Triomphe, I found Haneke – just off a flight from Vienna, where he lives – tucking into a luxurious lunch in the restaurant.
(2) It made possible the birth of local bourgeoisies and states dedicated almost exclusively to the extraction of a surplus value from the peasantry through cash cropping.
(3) Maduro has insisted he will remain in power despite the efforts of a "parasitic bourgeoisie" to bleed the country dry.
(4) The capitalist class does very well out of it, which is why names like McAlpine, Wimpey and Barratt turn up so often among Conservative donors; but more interestingly, it also buys consent from a large proportion of the "petit bourgeoisie" who have an interest in the value of their only asset, their only piece of property – their house – getting higher and higher, however much that might be against their interest in other respects.
(5) Local authorities in Königsberg and Berlin and the bourgeoisie in the merchant city of Danzig, however, stressed the destructive consequences of the cordon system.
(6) In theory, there are initiatives – such as country-twanged theme songs and greater required alcohol consumption – that could incite soccer's urban, wine-sipping bourgeoisie to abandon their pretenses of supposedly Euro-centric civility.
(7) And because the bourgeoisie is the dominant class everywhere in the world, there is a kind of amnesia about what politics means to other people.
(8) I ask myself, how can we write about the dominated without using the language of the bourgeoisie, who have the advantages, or the language of my childhood, the language that called me a poor faggot, the language that was no friend of mine but a language of violence.
(9) There would be no Sistine Chapel without the Holy See; no Dutch old masters without the bourgeoisie and their desire for portraiture.
(10) It's similar to how the bourgeoisie took over from the aristocracy 200 years ago," he said.
(11) The fact that he sided with the workers and peasants, while I side with the bourgeoisie, was no obstacle to friendship.
(12) The middle class, of course: in the feedback loop of the bourgeoisie, their behaviour (breastfeeding, long maternity leave and well-planned paternity leave) begets better bonding, leads them to care more, which leads to even better behaviour.
(13) It warned that the party had been infiltrated by counter-revolutionary “revisionists” who were plotting to create a “dictatorship of the bourgeoisie”.
(14) But I said, ''Bourgeoisie, what sort of polytechnic expression is that?''
(15) Born in Athens in 1945, as Greece was poised to descend into civil war, Pikramenos is part of the country's old bourgeoisie and is described as "decent and well-mannered".
(16) The majority of today's nurses have followed a different course starting from petty bourgeoisie origins in towns and moving laterally through provincial bureaucratic channels.
(17) 3.03pm GMT Labour's John McDonnell points to the Guardian's Michael White, who is sitting at the press bench, and says he wants to drag him off to the Tower for being a running dog of the bourgeoisie – but not for treason.
(18) Marx and Engels’s revolutionary summons to the working classes details the nature of the class struggles between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, and the problems with capitalism.
(19) The prevalence of low birth weight according to social class was seen to be lower in the bourgeoisie classes (ranging from 2.8% to 3.9%) and higher in working classes (from 7% up to 9.5%).
(20) Photograph: Shutterstock The immediate neighbourhood around the canal is now so thoroughly hipsterised that Maigret, finely attuned to the distinctions between petite and haute bourgeoisie, would probably have to quickly down a few strong marcs before he could process the idea of wealthy young Parisians deliberately embracing, en masse, an area that was once so working class.
Proletariat
Definition:
(n.) The indigent class in the State; the body of proletarians.
Example Sentences:
(1) Then his daughter kept things ticking over by retweeting a comment on his critics: "Hello to the bunch of wankers that come from the proletariat and only criticize those they envy".
(2) Source: Adalah General Moshe Dayan on the Bedouin in 1963: "We should transform the Bedouins into an urban proletariat – in industry, services, construction and agriculture.
(3) Rather than, say, advocating the dictatorship of the proletariat in the transitional period, all it takes is to suggest that forcing people out of their homes because they have a spare room is cruel and unjust.
(4) For four decades, the Farc, the army and paramilitaries – claiming respectively to represent the peasantry and proletariat, the state and the landowning classes – fought for terrain and terrorised and drove out those upon it as they advanced or retreated.
(5) Are we finally gearing up for a violent uprising of the proletariat?
(6) They dreamed of bringing proletariat and intellectuals together into one critical mass which would blow their post-Stalinist regimes apart.
(7) If the future of cities means a proletariat turning back into a peasantry, we ought not to expect them to be happy about it.
(8) Marx and Engels’s revolutionary summons to the working classes details the nature of the class struggles between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, and the problems with capitalism.
(9) "Execute anybody with the temerity to impose fascist regimes such as websense and firewalls on the World Cup watching, work shy members of the proletariat such as myself.
(10) Despite Gorz's longstanding links with trade unions, he increasingly looked beyond the traditional Marxian proletariat to implement his "radically reformist" programme, which advocated a mass exodus from the employment relationship and from commodity-based social relations.
(11) There is, of course, a long history of public campaigns featuring ludicrous and fictitious characters designed to convey messages to the proletariat.
(12) Proximity to British arguments helped shape Marx ’s vision of a proletariat goaded by the inequities and degradations of industrial capitalism into a revolutionary redemption of human existence.
(13) On the now government owned estates, they have formed a kind of industrial proletariat, living in long estate line housing where each family has one or two rooms.
(14) The considerable influence that physicians retain and their level of skill keep them from fitting a strict Marxist definition of the proletariat.
(15) The only people who truly bought into our fantasies of seizing power in the name of the proletariat, were the various arms of the security state such as MI5 and the Metropolitan Police Special Branch.
(16) Globalisation has been the explicit strategy of multinational corporations seeking new proletariats to land on in other countries.
(17) We celebrate them here … Ministry – With Sympathy (1983) Ministry - (1983) With sympathy Long before they honed their monolithic industrial metal sound, Ministry were just another of the 80s new wave proletariat.
(18) In his account, the early New Labour period saw the final confirmation that as far as what used to be called the proletariat was concerned, "middle-class progressives who had traditionally come out fighting these underdogs' corner, or reporting their condition as missionaries or journalists, were keen to silence them, or bury them without an obituary.
(19) Perhaps it's a pity, therefore, that all that survived of his preface to the novel was a single, dogmatic sentence: "As long as social damnation exists, through laws and customs, artificially creating hell at the heart of civilisation and muddying a destiny that is divine with human calamity; as long as the three problems of the century - man's debasement through the proletariat, woman's demoralisation through hunger, the wasting of the child through darkness - are not resolved; as long as social suffocation is possible in certain areas; in other words, and to take an even broader view, as long as ignorance and misery exist in this world, books like the one you are about to read are, perhaps, not entirely useless."
(20) Just as the established church, rich landowners and Jews were to be swept away by the poor of medieval Europe, so the "world Jewish conspiracy" was to make way for the Third Reich, or the Marxist proletariat succeed the bourgeoisie.