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In its wider sense it means those of the middle class, originally neither [[aristocrat]]ic nor [[peasant]] and was the French equivalent of [[Burgess]] ([[English]]) or Burgher ([[German]]). All were citizens or freemen of the [[medieval]] ''burgh'' or town from whence we get the modern "Borough". By extension, the adjective "bourgeois" can mean hum-drum, unimaginative, conventional and the like.  
 
In its wider sense it means those of the middle class, originally neither [[aristocrat]]ic nor [[peasant]] and was the French equivalent of [[Burgess]] ([[English]]) or Burgher ([[German]]). All were citizens or freemen of the [[medieval]] ''burgh'' or town from whence we get the modern "Borough". By extension, the adjective "bourgeois" can mean hum-drum, unimaginative, conventional and the like.  
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== Quotes from Lenin ==
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* “The way to crush the [[middle class]] is to grind them between the millstones of [[taxation]] and [[inflation]].” -- [[Lenin]]
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* [[Social class]]
 
* [[Social class]]
 
* [[Aristocracy]] or [[Nobility]]
 
* [[Aristocracy]] or [[Nobility]]
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* Bourgeoisie - some say [[White collar]]
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* [[Working class]] - or laboring class - some say [[Blue collar]]
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* [[Working class values]] - [[American values]] - [[Real America]]
   
* [[Proletariat]]
 
* [[Proletariat]]
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* [[Caste system]]
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* The [[poor]] - [[peasant]] class
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* [[Welfare state]]
      
==References==
 
==References==
 
{{reflist|2}}
 
{{reflist|2}}
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==External Sites==
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* http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/the-real-meaning-of-downward-class-migration
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* http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/do-not-make-fun-of-those-that-have-fallen-out-of-the-middle-class-you-could-be-next
      
[[Category:Dictionary]]
 
[[Category:Dictionary]]
 
[[Category:Economics]]
 
[[Category:Economics]]
 
[[Category:Marxist terminology]]
 
[[Category:Marxist terminology]]
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[[Category:Communism]]
 
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