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Capital One N.A. Member FDIC. Hello and welcome to the short stuff. I'm Josh and there's Chuck and Jerry sitting in for Dave. So it's short stuff, you basic person. Are you calling me bougie? Yeah. No, I'm not. I wouldn't do that. I think it's kind of a mean thing to say to somebody, at least in America. In France, they're like, yes, you're right. Thank you. In America, it's a bit of a put down.
That's right, and that's what we're talking about today. We're talking about a word, bourgeois, B-O-U-R-G-E-O-I-S. Yeah. Not to be confused with bourgeoisie, correct? Correct.
Well, yeah, they're very closely related. Bourgeois can mean a it can be an adjective and a noun. Right. If it's a noun, you're talking about one person who is bourgeois. So that's their behavior or it's the one person bourgeoisie is all of the people who are bourgeois. It's a noun only. OK, everybody, there's going to be a quiz at the end of this episode.
But if you talk to Americans, a lot of Americans probably hear bourgeois and they think, oh, fancy, fancy, fancy. And that is not the case because bourgeois refers to, like you called me, basics or sort of a middle class basic individual. Yes. Or group of individuals.
Right. But there's a there's a long road between the original version of bourgeois that we'll talk about and then the the American version that it has now. And right smack dab in the middle are the commies, specifically Karl Marx.
I don't understand why Joseph Engels never gets his due because he and Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto, but it's always just Karl Marx, Karl Marx, you know, must drive Engels crazy. But in 1848, they published the Communist Manifesto. And in that, they adopted the word that had formerly been middle class people. It wasn't really much of a put down. It was just a useful word for a while.
he equated them with the people who owned the capital that the labor was produced on and decided that they were exploiting the proletariat, the working class, right?
That's right. And he was writing in German. So, of course, he did not say bourgeois. He said Bürgerliche Gesellschaft.
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