Definition Of Bourgeois Capitalism

As nouns the difference between capitalist and bourgeois.

Definition of bourgeois capitalism. The class of people in bourgeois society who own the social means of production as their private property i e as capital. A shopkeeper or merchant. A member of the bourgeoisie or middle class. Bourgeois society or capitalism.

As adjectives the difference between capitalist and bourgeois is that capitalist is of or pertaining to capitalism while bourgeois is of or relating to the middle class especially its attitudes and conventions. A person who is generally materialistic and concerned with respectability and convention. See the communist manifesto for marx and engels description of the historical role of the bourgeoisie. Bourgeoisie the social order that is dominated by the so called middle class.

While bourgeois adjective noun modifier describes the weltanschauung of 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.