noun
definition
A class of citizens who were wealthier members of the third estate.
definition
The capitalist class.
Examples of bourgeoisie in a Sentence
Of the two parties who joined in it Retz could only depend on the bourgeoisie of Paris.
The bourgeoisie sought the support of the clergy, and irreligion became as unfashionable among them as it had been among the nobility after 1793.
Many of its members were sons of the bourgeoisie, men who having been educated at college, thanks to some charitablt, agency, in the pride of learning, and raised above their original station, were ready for anything but had achieved nothing They bad plenty of talent at c0mmand, were full of classical tirades against tyranny, and, though sensitive enough in their private life, were bloodthirsty butchers in their public relations.
The only way to put an end to war is to overthrow the bourgeoisie.
The old municipal patriciate, which used to form the connecting link between the bourgeoisie and the nobility, had disappeared, and a feeling of common civic fellowship had taken its place.
The middle classes and the petite bourgeoisie remained completely excluded and unconcerned.
In each there was a court for the noblesse, and a court (or courts) for the bourgeoisie.
As opposed to these stand the villes franches, also called villes prevotales after the chief officer, villes de bourgeoisie or villes soumises.
The economic renaissance due to the great maritime discoveries had the consequence of concentrating wealth in the hands of the bourgeoisie.
Owing to their mental qualities, their tendencies and their resources, the bourgeoisie had been, if not alone, at least most apt in profiting by the development of industry, ly the extension of commerce, and by the formation of a new and mobile means of enriching themselves.
Instead of exasperating the demands of the peasants and workmen by repression and raising civil war between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, they drew a distinction between personal servitude, which was suppressed, and the rights of contract, which were to be redeemeda laudable but impossible distinction.
The bourgeoisie, the Assembly, the country and La Fayette, one of the leaders of the army, now embarked upon a royalist reaction, which would perhaps have been efficacious, Manifesto had it not been for the entry into the affair of the ki Prussians as allies of the Austrians, and for the insolent manifesto of the duke of Brunswick.
Their real defence against counter revolution was the army; but, by a further contradiction, they reinforced the army attached to the Revolution while seeking an alliance with the peacemaking bourgeoisie.
The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe.
Why should the proletariat be called upon to show magnanimity toward the bourgeoisie?
It even states that the fall of the bourgeoisie and the victory of the proletariat are both equally inevitable.
The contest being carried on by warfare, it followed that these captains in the burghs were chosen on account of military skill; and, since the nobles were men of arms by profession, members of ancient houses took the lead again in towns where they had been absorbed into the bourgeoisie.
The municipal elections in several of the larger cities, which had hitherto been regarded as strongholds of socialism, marked an overwhelming triumph for tJic constitutional parties, notably in Milan, Turin and Genoa, for the strikes had wrought as much harm to the working classe1 as to the bourgeoisie.
In his general conception of human affairs there is a tendency to regard too exclusively the material side of things, which made him pre-eminently the economist of the French liberal bourgeoisie.
His father was a Parisian notary named Silvestre, and the additional name of de Sacy was taken by the younger son after a fashion then common with the Paris bourgeoisie.
Meanwhile the princes of the blood and the great nobles resented the ascendancy of councillors and soldiers drawn from the smaller nobility and the bourgeoisie.
At the same time, the free-trade treaty with Great Britain (January 5, 1860) aroused a movement against him among the industrial bourgeoisie.
Keynes ' ' educated bourgeoisie ' seem noticeably absent.
The ruling elite, including the emerging private sector bourgeoisie, is not split along usual political dividing lines.
In order to defeat the bourgeoisie in reality it must first be beaten intellectually.
The discovery of America, the rounding of the Cape, opened up fresh ground for the rising bourgeoisie.
Baudrillard argues that the period of modernity was structured by production and dominated by the bourgeoisie.
The old term for these is the " petty bourgeoisie " .
Where is the nascent bourgeoisie going to obtain its capital?
During the last period the German petit bourgeoisie steamed like a kettle.
Notes [1] War industries committees were established in Russia in 1915 by the imperialist bourgeoisie.
The liberal bourgeoisie which took power into its hands began to seek new ways to unite all these peoples.
We get a ' bourgeois ' this and a ' bourgeois ' that and references to ' the ruling bourgeoisie ' .
They are not the ' tools of the world bourgeoisie ' .
This peasant bourgeoisie stands in the camp of reaction and of counter-revolution.
Indeed, the transfer of money and power from the aristocracy to the bourgeoisie is absolutely central to Balzac's fiction.
Tho he idealizes the rural petty bourgeoisie, Tolkien treats them with enormous condescension.
The weapons with which the bourgeoisie felled feudalism to the ground are now turned against the bourgeoisie itself.
In these circumstances, the liberal- internationalist bourgeoisie in Europe attempted to create a regionally defined ultra-imperialist order.
Materialism preceded Marxism by more than two thousand years and in the eighteenth century materialism preceded Marxism by more than two thousand years and in the eighteenth century materialism was the standpoint of the rising bourgeoisie.
The Prussian constitutional conflict was the last time the class struggle of the German bourgeoisie flared up against the feudal monarchy.
It is often suggested that we have no ethics of our own; very often the bourgeoisie accuse us communists of rejecting all morality.
As part of the anti-social offensive, the logic of the bourgeoisie is that there are no problems which belong to the whole society.
Thirdly, the poor peasantry must be united against the rural bourgeoisie which currently holds surplus grain stocks.
The general mood of the Chinese petty bourgeoisie changed rapidly from extreme optimism to extreme pessimism.
Republican ideas spread among the highly politicized local bourgeoisie.
In this way the economic might of the French bourgeoisie also rested directly on the labor of the Russian proletariat.
The medieval burgesses and the small peasant proprietors were the precursors of the modern bourgeoisie.
The Indian bourgeoisie is incapable of leading a revolutionary struggle.
But there was also an ideological vacuum, which neither the left nor the native bourgeoisie were capable of filling.