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Bourgeoisie And The Industrial Revolution

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“We wanted to make up Bourgeoisie a class wrongly. It is nothing more than the content portion of the population”. By saying that, Victor Hugo estimates that Bourgeoisie is not from Aristocracy class, but as a part of the Proletarian one. Therefore it does not really exist in its current form. This quotation states as a link between the Marxist’s doctrine from the Industrial Revolution, and the actual perception we have of classes. Indeed, the notion of social classes appears during the Industrial Revolution in the middle of the XIXth century. In this latest industrialized society, a certain amount of theoreticians amongst which, Karl Marx or Engels, have observed that people could be classified into different and hierarchical classes: Proletarians,

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