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   Karl Marx

   What the bourgeoisie, therefore, produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. ... ↑ Wheen, F., Karl Marx, p. 56
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   Marxism

   The bourgeoisie may be further subdivided into the very wealthy bourgeoisie and the petit bourgeoisie. ... Karl Marx
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   Bourgeoisie

   The term bourgeoisie is widely used in many non-English speaking countries as an approximate equivalent of upper class (found in the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels).
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   Classical Marxism

   Karl Marx ... The bourgeoisie may be further subdivided into the very wealthy bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie.
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   Proletariat

   The term was initially used in a derogatory sense, until Karl Marx used it as a sociological term to refer to the working class. ... | Bourgeoisie | Upper class | Ruling class | Nobility | White-collar |
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   Capitalism

   Karl Marx first used the phrase capitalist mode of production as a critique to the Industrial economy, in which large disparities of wealth existed between the capitalists and the wage laborers. ... The associated rise of a bourgeoisie class eclipsed the prior feudal system.
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   Means of production

   To the question of why classes exist in human societies in the first place, Karl Marx offered an historical explanation that it was the cultural practice of Ownership of the Means of Production that gives rise to them. ... The practice of OMP in human societies is then a type of game where some people are labeled owners (Marx used the term, Bourgeoisie) and other people are labeled workers (Marx used the term, Proletariat).
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   Communism

   Marx had explicitly stated that Russia might be able to skip the stage of bourgeoisie capitalism. ... Karl Marx
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   Capital, Volume I

   Karl Marx examined surplus value and showed it to be a necessity in capitalism. ... Though at this point in history we see the beginnings of a bourgeoisie class, there is not yet an efficient capitalist mode of production to absorb the newly ‘created’ proletariat.
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    Permanent revolution

    Permanent Revolution is a term within Marxist theory, which was first used by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels between 1845 and 1850, but has since become most closely associated with Leon Trotsky. ... The final two sentences, however, show that the bourgeoisie did not give up hope, but continued to pursue their interests.

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