petty bourgeois
noun
Origin of petty bourgeois
1First recorded in 1885–90
Words Nearby petty bourgeois
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How to use petty bourgeois in a sentence
The Marxian theory has long ago criticized beyond misunderstanding this petty bourgeois-democratic and anarchistic nonsense.
Bolshevism | John SpargoBut this point is always treated adroitly by the bourgeois critics of the Soviet rule and by their petty bourgeois aides.
Bolshevism | John SpargoThus a petty-bourgeois subterfuge becomes the solution of Sismondi: putting the dampers on accumulation.
The Accumulation of Capital | Rosa LuxemburgWe have no desire here to criticise this petty bourgeois Utopia.
Anarchism and Socialism | George PlechanoffHis "League of Egoists" is only the Utopia of a petty bourgeois in revolt.
Anarchism and Socialism | George Plechanoff
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