07/26/2026
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🕵️Decoding Leftist Lingo:
Proletariat: The class of wage workers who derive their income from the sale of their labor. 🧑🔧
Bourgeoisie: The economic ruling class who owns the means of production and controls the means of coercion. 🤵
🌎Origins:
Swiss liberal economist and historian Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi was the first to apply the term proletariat to the working class created under capitalism, and whose writings were frequently cited by Karl Marx.
The bourgeoisie originally emerged in the late Middle Ages as a “middle class” between peasantry and aristocracy. The Industrial Revolution amplified the expansion of this social class, leading to a new form of economic disparity between workers and capital owners.
🛑Stop thinking about social class in relation to your income or personal property.
💭Start thinking about social class in relation to the means of production.