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La sortie du bourgeois, painted by Jean Béraud (1889)
The bourgeoisie (/ˌbʊərʒwɑːˈziː/ⓘBOOR-zhwah-ZEE, French:[buʁʒwazi]ⓘ) are a class of business owners and merchants which emerged in the Late Middle Ages, originally as a "middle class" between peasantry and aristocracy. They are traditionally contrasted with the proletariat by their wealth, political power, and education,[1][2] as well as their access to and control of cultural, social and financial capital.
The bourgeoisie in its original sense is intimately linked to the political ideology of liberalism and its existence within cities, recognized as such by their urban charters (e.g., municipal charters, town privileges, German town law), so there was no bourgeoisie apart from the citizenry of the cities.[3] Rural peasants came under a different legal system.
In communist philosophy, the bourgeoisie is the social class that came to own the means of production during modern industrialization and whose societal concerns are the value of private property and the preservation of capital to ensure the perpetuation of their economic dominance in society.[4]
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^Siegrist 2001, p. 785.
^Hoipkemier 2015, p. 651.
^"Bourgeois Society". Marxists Internet Archive. Archived from the original on 27 November 1999. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
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