• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    States controlled by bourgeois interests are a consequence of Capitalism and an extension of it, not some random freak occurance.

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      Indeed. I like the idea of capitalism, but it rapidly becomes something else, something more sinister and harmful to all. It doesn’t just stay capitalism. It concentrates wealth and then the wealth makes the bottom fall out.

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          of or characteristic of the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes.

          “a rich, bored, bourgeois family”