When you dismiss/critique something simply by saying it is: bourgeois, what do you mean exactly...

When you dismiss/critique something simply by saying it is: bourgeois, what do you mean exactly? what is it that you're saying about that thing?

bourgeois is not a strong criticism, it is a soft criticism.

sometimes they mean it in a bitter way, like they're jealous that people have access to that "bourgeois" thing. like ice cream made with bourbon barrel aged tahitian vanilla and Don Perignon vintage, decorated with gold leaf. That is extravagent, don't you think?

but most people use it on a more ideological ground, to refer to beliefs and systems which promote a liberal false consciousness, like equal enfranchisement, liberal equality, idpol, etc. Trotsky wrote about this when he said:

>[The Liberals say to Christianity]”You are lulled to sleep by promises of eternal bliss at the end of your life, while here you have no rights and you are bound with the chains of tyranny.” The Socialist Party, a few decades later, said to the same masses with no less right:– ”You are lulled to sleep with the fiction of civic equality and political rights, but you are deprived of the possibility of realizing those rights. Conditional and shadowy legal equality has been transformed into the convicts’ chain with which each of you is fastened to the chariot of capitalism.”

~Trotsky, Terrorism and Communism (1920), Ch. 3

Of or relating to the bourgeoisie, the ownership class that controls the means of production. Typically referring to social, political, or economic constructs that reify or reinforce thoughts or institutions that are amenable to bourgeois domination over society.

is the cbc bourgeois?

bbc?

middle class small individual values like getting fancy food at a fancy grocery store and caring how healthy it is, or thoughts about how the normal system (universities, government, police) are mostly okay, but any deviants should be ignored or scolded or changed.

tell me if I'm wrong, but in a way it comes across as an absence, or a neutrality, towards society. by not critiquing things at a marxist level, something already becomes bourgeois

what is bourgeois media or books or culture like?

aren't most of you into that stuff?

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"bourgeois" doesn't necessarily mean "bad"

Lukacs considered anything that omits the nature of class relations/struggle as bourgeois iirc.

I don't know if you saw the Disney Princess and the Frog movie, but the relationship between the poor black girl and rich white one would make it "bourgeois" in that it propagates this idea that there's no divide or conflict between the ownership and working classes.

I'm sure there are better examples but that's the first that came to mind.

Basically that it supports or appeals to the upper class. Bourgeois politics, for example, are politics that support the upper class or business owners, such as tax cuts or lowered regulations. A more petty example would be bourgeois food, you know, like the stuff you get in expensive restaurants, or gluten-free-homegrown-artisanal 20$ slices of toast if you're more hip.

are 'food trends' bourgeois just b/c they are expensive? are eaten by the bourgeois? does that mean the proletariate just have simple/basic tastes?

Pretty much. Expensive food trends are a part of the upper class culture. You gotta eat the food rich people eat, wear the clothes they wear, etc. A lot of trends and fashions are about emulating rich people, because the rich are often seen as more classy or just better. That's why you see a lot of middle class or even poor families busting their budget to dine in expensive restaurants or buy a wedding dress that they'll only wear once, because it makes them feel rich.

that is called 'cultural capital' right?

do you guys just dismiss ike everything as bourgeois?????

Pretty bourgeois thing to say tbh

man we should play fun drawing games like that more often

that's true, decent is liberal

Put the bottle down and go to bed my man.

guess what. im going to keep drinking

it's really not a good critique usually. if someone does that, they're either joking or probably a closet stalinist usually.

when someone says 'you just need to work harder' and you say they're being 'bourgeois' you;re being a stalinist?

it's a non argument you should stop using it if you want to start connecting with the workers

Bourgeois means it relates to the capitalist class, their society or their ideology. Specifically, bourgeoisie means the class of capitalists who own the means of production. The petite (or "small") bourgeoisie are an in-between class made of small business owners, managers, lawyers, politicians, academics, etc.