• TSG_Asmodeus (he, him)@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    Just a reminder but the bourgeoisie are the “middle class”, and that the CEO who was killed is part of a capitalist oligopoly.

    The bourgeoisie haven’t been targeted here, an aristocrat has.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      12 days ago

      Aristocrats were an offshoot of feudalism, the bourgeoisie are the Capital Owners. The “middle class” is the petite bourgeoisie, who are Capital Owners that must labor, ie small business owners. This was the bourgeoisie, not an aristocrat.

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        12 days ago

        Absolutely, I just meant that the inhuman monster who was killed wasn’t bourgeoisie, he was an aristocrat. These are rich families that stay rich by exploiting the poor and (few remaining) bourgeoisie.

        In end stage capitalism you’re oligarchy, poor, or soon to be one of the two.

        • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlOP
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          12 days ago

          He wasn’t an inhuman monster, he was a product of the capitalist system. When he dies, someone else replaces him, as the the system demands.

          And, in Marxists terms anyway, he was not an aristocrat. The bourgeoisie overthrew the aristocracy hundreds of years ago. Capitalism is a different mode of production from feudalism. He was a member of the capitalist class, he was bourgeois.