I’m very glad I bought this Socialist magazine, people, because it’s very funny. It says, for instance, that the GOP is “beholden to the petty bourgeois Tea Party and troglodyte sections of big capital.” Say what you will, but it’s hilarious that some people still managed to retain this verbiage as late as 2014.
3 responses to “Troglodytes and Petty Bourgeois”
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Unfotunately I don’t think the tea party members really are “petit bourgeois”. Do they all run small businesses? or isn’t it that they are averagely waged joes and jills, perhaps with some financial advantage due to their long-term generations in the USA, but really not that special?
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” Do they all run small businesses? or isn’t it that they are averagely waged joes and jills, perhaps with some financial advantage due to their long-term generations in the USA, but really not that special?”
– No, the Tea Party people are, more often than not, what Marx and I 🙂 would call lumpen-proletariat. These are the most financially disadvantaged white people in the US. They are terrified of technology, modernity, sexual liberation, general “godlessness” of everybody else and act out in infantile ways.
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so then not petit bourgeois by definition.
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