By that I mean no alienating tech like Tiktok and such, strong middle class, normal seasons/no worry of climate crisis, general optimism about the future etc. etc.

  • Raymond Shannon@lemmy.ml
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    Let’s see here

    Bourgeoisie:

    includes grande (big) and moyenne (medium) bourgeoisie, but essentially they are medium (regional/national) and large (global) capitalists, that mainly rely on industrial profit, if not landed rend, and financial interest, based around growing industrial and financial production

    Though I consider bourgeoisie in its western context, to specifically refer to the first modern form in Europe, birthed from the Medieval period

    Bourg-eois --> Bourg derives from the medieval German term for “city”, as they derived from the growing cities of their era

    Petty-bourgeoisie:

    a small business owner (only a handful of businesses directly owned by them)

    Proletariat:

    wage/salaried laborers who depend heavily on their wage/salary, lest a few days/weeks leave em destitute and homeless

    They are historically converted from the destruction of peasants, yeomanry, guild craftsmen, apprentices and mentors, during the progressive bourgeois revolution against feudalism.

    Originally, in Rome, such term was derived from those citizens who made offspring to serve the Roman slave mode of production

    Lumpenproletariat

    despite its name, it is a similarly newly-created class of capitalism, more destitute and ruined than the proletariat, defined by a lack of official joblessness and stability, which include people from the simply unemployed and unhoused to criminals, strike-breakers, prostitutes, and gangsters

    They are a wild card that can ally with either bourgeois or proletariat forces

    Lumpen (rabble) + proletariat