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Comfortable but not elite middle-class stratum, often provincial and aspirational, that Jiang treats as the typical source of revolutionary thought leaders.
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petite bourgeoisie
Comfortable but not elite middle-class stratum, often provincial and aspirational, that Jiang treats as the typical source of revolutionary thought leaders.
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Glossary
Jiang's later-history name for the lower nobility or middle class: people with some status who want more.
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The petite bourgeoisie are comfortable but aspirational provincial elites, and Jiang identifies them as the group most likely to lead revolutions.
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"...most likely to lead the revolution come from members of the petite bourgeoisie. Okay? So most of the leaders of the French Revolution, the..."
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"...more. Okay? And in the French Revolution, we'll call them the petite bourgeoisie. And today we call them the middle class. Okay? Does that..."
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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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"...the middle class you have different groups of the proletariat the petite bourgeoisie the bourgeoisie um they argue amongst themselves as well so what..."
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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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"...violence. So these are the foot soldiers of revolutions. Okay? The petite bourgeoisie are often the thought leaders, but the proletariat are the ones..."
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"...the proletariat and the peasantry. There's lots of interchange between the bourgeoisie and the nobility. Okay? These categories are not static. The other thing..."
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The French Revolution is not introduced as politics first.
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Greek history begins with geography, but it ends here as a theory of abundance, blocked status, and pointless war: when the line stops moving, the young do not overthrow the old order directly.
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