Bourgeoisie Cats

French word

Bourgeoisie.

Haute Bougie

Up-scale and fancy

Materialistic in values

Conventional in attitudes

Business owners, Merchants

Mid Owners of society's wealth

Caught in-between

The very poor and the super-rich

Between peasantry and aristocracy

May be thought crass and pretentious

You who entertain the belief

That all people should be compelled

To live in a world carved out after

Your own image

Are you forever exploiting

The proletariat, the poorer class

Contrasted by your wealth, education

Political power, control of cultural

Social and financial capital

Bourgeoise - Masculine Cats

That social class that came to own the means of

Production and industrialization

Whose societal concerns are the values of private property

And the preservation of capital to ensure the

Perpetuation of their economic dominance in society

Bourgeois - Feminine Cats

The relatively rich men and women of the urban and rural

A social class oriented to economic materialism and hedonism

To upholding the political and economic interests

Of the upper class of a capitalistic society

(Hedonism - the prioritization of pleasure in one's lifestyle, actions or thoughts.

All inclusive of a number of theories or practices across philosophy, art, and psychology,

Encompassing both sensory pleasure and more intellectual or personal pursuits,

Used in everyday parlance as a pejorative for the egoistic pursuit of short-term gratification at the expense of others)

And to upholding the political and economic interests

Of the capitalist ruling class

Historically, the craftsmen, artisans, merchants, and others, who constituted "the bourgeoisie".

The socio-economic class between the peasants and the landlords

Between the workers and the owners of the means of production

The economic managers of the (raw) materials

Of the goods, and the services, and thus the capital (money)

Produced by the feudal economy, the term "bourgeoisie"

Evolved to also denote the middle class – the businessmen and

Businesswomen who accumulated, administered, and controlled the

Capital that made possible the development of the bourgs into cities

Men and women whose way of thinking is socially and culturally

Determined by their economic materialism and philistinism

A social identity famously mocked in Molière's comedy

Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (1670), which satirizes

Buying the trappings of a noble-birth identity

As the means of climbing the social ladder

Bougie Cats

Emerging in the 1970s, the shortened term "bougie" became slang

Referring to things or attitudes which are middle class, pretentious and suburban.

Boujee Cats

An intentional misspelling of the word as "boujee" – a term which has

particularly been used by African Americans in reference

To African Americans

Refers to a person of lower or middle class

Mimicking pretentious activities or virtues

As an affectation of the upper-class

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Haute bourgeoisie

Bankers and industrialists

Petite bourgeoisie

Tradesmen and white-collar workers

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Are we not all a little bit,

Or maybe a lot

Bourgeoisie!!!!!!!

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