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petty ˈbourgeois
[f. petty a. (n.1) as anglicization of Fr. petit + bourgeois n.1 and a.]
= petit bourgeois. Also (occas. with hyphen) attrib. or as adj.
1888S. Moore tr. Marx & Engels's Manifesto of Communist Party 24 In countries where modern civilization has become fully developed, a new class of petty bourgeois has been formed. Ibid. 26 German Socialism recognised..its own calling as the bombastic representative of the petty bourgeois socialism. 1904in R. C. K. Ensor Mod. Socialism xx. 289, I reckon, the life of the petty bourgeois,..is an unhappy one. 1906E. M. Aveling tr. Plechanoff's Anarchism & Socialism iii. 26 His [sc. Max Stirner's] ‘League of Egoists’ is only the Utopia of a petty bourgeois in revolt. Ibid. iv. 35 Proudhon was the most typical representative of petty bourgeois socialism. 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 26 Feb. 141/3 It is for its intellectual critics, whom it first degrades by the question-begging epithet ‘petty-bourgeois’, that Bolshevism reserves its cruellest penalties. 1936‘M. Innes’ Death at President's Lodging vii. 133 Our Inspector's petty-bourgeois passion for the till. 1943H. Read Politics of Unpolitical 15 According to Dr. Fromm, Hitler succeeded so well because he was able to combine the qualities of a resentful petty-bourgeois..with those of an opportunist ready to serve the interests of the German industrialists and Junkers. 1951C. W. Mills White Collar i. ii. 30 It is..a feature of such petty-bourgeois life that extreme repression is often exercised in its patriarchal orbit. 1958I. Murdoch in N. Mackenzie Conviction 230 This mass is now quiescent, its manner of life largely suburban and its outlook ‘petty bourgeois’. 1960D. Lessing In Pursuit of English i. 13 These are not the real working-class. They are the lumpen-proletariat, tainted by petty-bourgeois ideology. 1974J. White tr. Poulantzas's Fascism & Dictatorship iii. ii. 111 The Nazi Party was filling the whole State apparatus..with members of petty-bourgeois origin and with their own quite specific petty-bourgeois ideology. 1977Time 24 Jan. 14/3 Italian Communist Party..spokesmen have denounced the leftists as ‘petty bourgeois’ hoodlums. 1978Encounter Feb. 36/2 The ‘people’ is what the petty bourgeois of the spirit transform all men and women into. |