From 1967 on, economic development of the population was encouraged and an Arab bourgeoisie began to develop on the margin of the Jewish bourgeoisie.

The old proletariat and the old bourgeoisie are gone.

The bourgeoisie, who would pay most of the tax, protested.

The Bolsheviks did it to the bourgeoisie. The Nazis did it to the Jews.

Nearly 1.5 million Cubans will never have a stake in the industries controlled by the military bourgeoisie.

It is traditionally regarded as a rising of the bourgeoisie against the absolute monarchy of the Bourbons.

In Thailand, by contrast, the bourgeoisie, centered in Bangkok, is barely emerging as a social and political force.

In Italy, the bourgeoisie of Milan and Rome have made a point of spending winter days dressed in characteristically German Loden overcoats.

It lacks the solid foundations of, say, Perónism, an inclusive movement that relied on a traditionally well organized working class and a nationalistic bourgeoisie.

Further north it remained the preferred drink of the bourgeoisie and the nobility who could afford it, and far less common among peasants and workers.

If anything has been laid to rest by China s rising wealth, it is the comforting idea that capitalism, and the growth of a prosperous bourgeoisie, will inevitably lead to liberal democracy.

In other prosperous democracies, the middle class provides the glue that holds society together. In Thailand, by contrast, the bourgeoisie, centered in Bangkok, is barely emerging as a social and political force.

Nearly 1.5 million Cubans will never have a stake in the industries controlled by the military bourgeoisie. Nor was the issue of land ownership resolved only a few plots will be leased in some form.