#bourgeoisie

[rainbowpopeworld]

[balkanparamo]

The Bourgeoisie, 2021: Richard Phillips

[unitedfrontvarietyhour]

I take it all 12 of you that closely follow me have noticed my relative absence...I am alive, and I am (mostly) okay. Work is doing its best to slowly kill me thru attrition. Needless to say, I may be on here less as work keeps this pace. But I shall never surrender! I continue to work on new videos and cruise the meme rivers for content whenever I can, and rest assured...I'm not done yet.

Til we meet again, comrades. Communism to all, and to all a good night.

[jayaury]

Bimbo Bourgeoisie

As a Resistance Spy, it was up to you to feed information to your allies in order to take down the aristocracy.

Fortunately, the countess you serve seems pretty dumb. She never even asked you about your past. Just asked you to look at her necklace.

Her pretty...sparkly necklace.

The one she liked to bounce between her big, pale breasts.

The necklace you had to follow as it swayed.

Bounced.

The breasts you loved to be buried under as she hugged you.

Her obedient servant.

Her good, mindless, obedient slave who'd be so naughty and lead his silly Resistance friends into a trap.

A trap so mistress could get a whole new staff of silly, rebellious toys to tame.

And you'll obey mistress, of course.

Good slaves always obey...

[nando161mando]

[nervous-old-man]

"a hug a day keeps the bourgeoisie away"

this is now part of my everyday language. people may look at me strangely, but i can't stop. i shan't. i must spread the good word to all who are willing to receive it.

[graveyardfullofstars]

[raisongardee]

"Jamais depuis le temps biblique ne s���était abattu sur nous fléau plus sournois, plus obscène, plus dégradant à tout prendre, que la gluante emprise bourgeoise. Classe plus sournoisement tyrannique, cupide, rapace, tartufière à bloc ! Moralisante et sauteuse ! Impassible et pleurnicharde ! De glace au malheur. Plus inassouvible ? Plus morpione en privilèges ? Ça ne se peut pas ! Plus mesquine ? plus anémiante ? plus férue de richesses plus vides ? Enfin pourriture parfaite."

Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Mea Culpa, 1936.

[rainbowpopeworld]

[degeneratedworker]

“Tax The Rich“ William Gropper New Masses Magazine United States of America July 9, 1935

[ev1lang3l]

[ultimate-word-tournament]

Ultimate Word Tournament!

Season 2

bourgeoisie (English) /ˌbʊəɹʒwɑːˈziː/ 1. In Marxism, the capitalist class who own most of society's wealth and means of production. 2. (historical) A class of citizens who were wealthier members of the third estate (the common people).

alluring (English) /əˈlʊɹɪŋ/ Having a strongly attractive or enticing quality.

[racefortheironthrone]

Medieval Communes are so interesting. Two questions: do you have any recs for learning more about the social history of these communes for a relative newbie? Also, do you think the conditions are right for Westeros to have commune movements like Europe did?

Gotcha covered.

As for Westeros, I'd recommend reading through my city charter and medieval cities tags. The short version is that GRRM doesn't really put enough emphasis on the burgher class(es) (merchants and artisans) for us to know.

My guess is that the conditions aren't right, because Westerosi cities lack the essential elements of:

municipal self-government, especially in the areas of justice and taxation.

politically active guilds and merchant houses. (Outside of the Antler Men.)

burgher/guild involvement in the militia/city watches.

Without a foundation of state power, socio-economic organization, and military power, it's very hard to overthrow feudal overlords. Hence why populist revolt in Westeros tends to be episodic rather than persistent.

[nando161mando]

Many such cases :(

[blackswaneuroparedux]

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

- Hermann Hesse

[graveyardfullofstars]