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Should we still use the terms ‘bourgeois’ and ‘proletariat’?
Some of Marx’s terms are unfamiliar to people today, so we should be careful how we use them
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“WHY use the terms ‘bourgeois’ and ‘proletariat’? Most people don’t know what they mean.”
You’re probably right. And in answer to your question; we probably shouldn’t, except in a historical context.
In a footnote to the 1883 edition of The Communist Manifesto, Engels wrote: “By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labour.
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