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petty bourgeois

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Word History and Origins

Origin of petty bourgeois1

First recorded in 1885–90

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The Marxian theory has long ago criticized beyond misunderstanding this petty bourgeois-democratic and anarchistic nonsense.

But this point is always treated adroitly by the bourgeois critics of the Soviet rule and by their petty bourgeois aides.

Thus a petty-bourgeois subterfuge becomes the solution of Sismondi: putting the dampers on accumulation.

We have no desire here to criticise this petty bourgeois Utopia.

His "League of Egoists" is only the Utopia of a petty bourgeois in revolt.

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