more folks should watch The Sorrow & The Pity which is quite explicitly about that
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"Small business owners", et al, were the core of some of the worst movements even before the rise of fascism.
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I feel like I need to sit down and do enough research, one of these days, to flesh out a "Trump is the heir to Cromwell" piece.
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in your estimation, is the north american petit bourgeois college educated?
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Nowadays, yes. But 40 years ago (when Trump's people were college age) -- no.
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I still like your tweet abt the GOP's splenetic plebes from a while back. :-)
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It would help of someone could tweet the meaning of petit bourgeoisie ina North American context. Small towners?
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in a way, a more common term is something like "main street businessmen", archetypal could be car dealership owner
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the salaried masses?
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by whom? AFAIK it's always been understood as a petit-bourgeois reaction.
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