Glossary
The industrialist and capitalist elite produced by the Industrial Revolution, seeking political power and secure property rights.
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Bourgeoisie
The industrialist and capitalist elite produced by the Industrial Revolution, seeking political power and secure property rights.
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model
He models industrialism as creating bourgeoisie, workers, and a middle class that together challenged the old land, military, and religious power structure.
diagnosis
He presents the 1848 revolutions as uprisings across Europe in which bourgeoisie, middle class, and workers demanded democracy, liberalism, socialism, and limits on religious power.
model
The Industrial Revolution makes the bourgeoisie the new elite and creates a need for property-rights protection, markets, resources, and imperial expansion.
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diagnosis
The manifesto's power lies in diagnosing capitalism as a force that dissolves feudal, patriarchal, and family relations into naked economic self-interest.
model
Jiang's basic social model of revolution is that bourgeois counter-elites use the proletariat as the muscle of revolt, then often try to control or kill the revolution when it threatens their interests.
definition
The bourgeoisie are the moneyed town elite who finance war, industry, and roads and therefore tend to be conservative because they already possess status.
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"extreme the intention is to discredit it to make it illegitimate to destroy the idea all right so if you think about it according..."
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"...people come into power okay so for example you have the bourgeoisie who are the bourgeoisie bourgeoisie are just the capitalists the factory owners..."
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"...place there was a uprising a combination of these people the bourgeoisie middle class and workers who called for changes in government okay some..."
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"...longest time they go along they maintain peace but now the bourgeoisie the industrialists the capitalists want to overthrow the regime okay so what..."
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"...the problem of the Industrial Revolution is the rise of the bourgeoisie, the bourgeoisie. Historically, it was the priests and the warriors who were..."
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"...where Marx and Engels diagnose the problems of capitalism. Okay? The bourgeoisie the capitalist class wherever it has got the upper hand has put..."
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"...of the thesis antithesis synthesis part of history. The so the bourgeoisie are engaged in imperialism it's destroying all that we've known before to..."
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"...simplify the middle class into three major categories okay there's the bourgeoisie the bourgeoisie remember are the elite of the town so these are..."
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"elites the counter leads are just those who need the people to revolt against the elites the proletariat will be the muscle or the..."
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"...categories. Three major categories. The first is what we call the bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie. Okay? The bourgeoisie is a French term that we use...."
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"...control of the money. The lawyers. Okay? So these are the bourgeoisie. These are the elite. And this is a new group of people..."
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