The bourgeoisie refers to the middle class in society, typically consisting of individuals who own property, have financial resources, and hold significant influence in politics and economics. They are often seen as the ruling class that controls the means of production and wealth in capitalist societies.
Bourgeoisie means: the common man, the commoners, the working class.
The Bourgeoisie
According to Karl Marx, the means of production were owned by the capitalist class, who used them to exploit the labor of the working class for profit. Marx believed this created a class struggle between the bourgeoisie (capitalists) and the proletariat (workers).
The capitalist class
According to Karl Marx, the bourgeoisie have ownership of the means of production, wealth, and power, while the proletarians lack ownership of these resources and must sell their labor power to the bourgeoisie in order to survive.
The bourgeoisie are the capitalist class who own the means of production and exploit the labor of the proletariat, who are the working class that sell their labor for wages. The bourgeoisie profit from the surplus value generated by the labor of the proletariat, perpetuating class struggle in capitalism.
The bourgeoisie is the upper class, people who own and control the means of production, such as factories, etc. The proletariat are people who have blue collar types of jobs, in mining, manufacturing, farming, etc., the people who do manual labor. There is no overlap between these two categories because the distinction is not one of wealth but of function within the capitalistic economy. The bourgeoisie buy the labor of the proletariat and oppress them by squeezing as much value out of them as possible in order to accumulate wealth, but they do not have to be wealthy to be a member of the bourgeoisie. The proletariat own nothing but the right to sell their labors. Marx did see a middle class, which he called "the petty bourgeoisie." These would be lawyers, doctors, architects, small shop owners, etc. They do not own or control the means of production but they aspire to be wealthy, therefore they are more like the bourgeoisie than the proletariat.
Priests were not members of the bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie was the economic class that owned the means of production (factories and stores) and employed the proletariat (working class). Although doctors and lawyers did not own means of production themselves, their income and lifestyle placed them in the same class as wealthy factory-owners. Priests, being outside the usual economic system, were not classified as either bourgeoisie or proletariat.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels define the bourgeoisie as the social class that owns the means of production in capitalist societies. They characterize the bourgeoisie as exploiting the labor of the proletariat to generate profits and maintain their privileged position in society.
The conflict between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat is rooted in their differing socioeconomic positions. The bourgeoisie are the capitalist class who own and control the means of production, while the proletariat are the working class who sell their labor for wages. This leads to a conflict of interest as the bourgeoisie aim to maximize profits, often at the expense of the proletariat's well-being and rights.
Bourgeoisie refers to the middle class, especially those with materialistic values and conventional attitudes. In Marxist theory, the bourgeoisie are seen as the capitalist class that owns the means of production and exploits the working class.
The possessive form of the noun bourgeoisie is bourgeoisie's.Example: The bourgeoisie's vote is very important in this race.