Timeline for Modern use of "bourgeoisie"
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| Mar 12, 2014 at 20:16 | answer | added | fdb | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 12, 2014 at 19:39 | answer | added | MrHen | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 28, 2014 at 21:51 | comment | added | David M | Using this word makes you sound like a bolshevik or a pedant. If either of them is your goal, then it's a great word. | |
| Jan 29, 2014 at 23:57 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | In fact, it is not much used today; as this Google Ngram shows, its absolute incidence has been declining rapidly since a peak in the 1970s, at the height of the counterculture. | |
| Jan 29, 2014 at 21:17 | history | edited | Bort | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 29, 2014 at 19:20 | answer | added | swbarnes2 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 29, 2014 at 19:18 | comment | added | Babs | The wise men above gave you sound advice. From Wikipedia: Contemporarily, the terms "bourgeoisie" and "bourgeois" identify the ruling class in capitalist societies, as a social stratum; while "bourgeois" describes the Weltanschauung (worldview) of men and women whose way of thinking is socially and culturally determined by their economic materialism and philistinism. | |
| Jan 29, 2014 at 19:11 | comment | added | Babs | @Elliott Frisch. Made me laugh! | |
| Jan 29, 2014 at 19:10 | comment | added | Babs | @Oldcat. Witty. | |
| Jan 29, 2014 at 18:56 | comment | added | Elliott Frisch | Choose something else even if you're plotting revolution. You probably should avoid proletariat for the same reason. | |
| Jan 29, 2014 at 18:33 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jan 29, 2014 at 18:26 | comment | added | Oldcat | Karl Marx has ruined that word for general use. Choose something else unless you are plotting revolution. | |
| Jan 29, 2014 at 18:17 | history | asked | Bort | CC BY-SA 3.0 |