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bourgeoisies

  • plural
    of bourgeoisie.
    bourgeoisie
    noun
    Usually the bourgeoisie in Marxist theory, the powerful capitalist class that owns and is concerned with property, as contrasted with the wage-earning class, which must concern itself with survival: the interests of the bourgeoisie are opposed to revolution and invested in the status quo.

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At this hour, you are the only one who can speak to all alike—to the common people and to the bourgeoisies of the nations.

From The Forerunners by Romain Rolland

One might wonder indeed if Anarchism, an essentially bourgeois doctrine, had not found adepts among the French bourgeoisie, the most blasée of all bourgeoisies.

From Anarchism and Socialism by Georgii Valentinovich Plekhanov

The protectionism and the exclusiveness of the bourgeoisies are brought to an end.

From The Stages in the Social History of Capitalism by Henri Pirenne

The city bourgeoisies that had previously resisted the government, now supported it in this one particular, persecution of the Anabaptists.

From The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith

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