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Entry: Sometimes a Racist, Always a Slut Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/sometimes_a_racist_always_a_slut#25538 Post contents: Marie-Claire, Perhaps I expressed myself poorly. My point was that the term "bourgeois" has, thanks to incessant Marxist usage of it as a slur, come to mean *by definition* a people who are servile and bovine in character. By contrast, the proper & original meaning may actually refer to independent-minded property-owners, like the kulaks (landowning peasantry) whom Lenin sought to liquidate in Russia. Or it could refer to enterprising guys who open their own independent bars, stores, or coffee-shops. Hence the irony of the hippies who hang out in such shops denigrating the bourgeoisie. I was, in fact, trying to generate some insights by highlighting what I am now inclined to see as my own error. But thanks anyhow for piling on with a heaping helping of scorn and tossing me in with Jean-Paul Sartre and the "America-Haters". You're a true patriot. Sent at: 2008 07 04