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Literally just say “petite bourgeoisie”

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[–] [email protected] 100 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Counter point: "small business" is a liberal buzzword used to demarcate a sacred part of the bourgeoisie that paradoxically takes upon positive attributes of the proletariat. To the average burger brain, a pool supply store owner is working class. Using the label "small business tyrant" directly and explicitly shines a light on the contradiction. theory-gary

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

RyanGosling gets ratio'd by S tier theory

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Libs when you say small business tyrant: frothingfash

Libs when you say homeless tyrants: unity

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 58 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Never encourage people to speak French

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

Little boogers.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

that's all you can saaay! that's all you can saaay! that's all you can saaay!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

and it's not even correct Fr*nch

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Viva Jay Sherman!

Viva Quebec!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

vraiment!

C'est la langue de <>

on hon hon hon

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

C'est une langue dégeulasse et vous d'evrait j'amais utilisez.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Shit everybody be cool it's the academie du francaise! We need to flush the neologisms!

[–] [email protected] 44 points 11 months ago

Petit bourgeoisie:

  • Pretentious academic jargon
  • French
  • Words that no normal person ever says

Small business tyrant:

  • Normal words
  • Is easily understandable to non-Marxists
  • Emotionally relatable
  • Pisses off the right people
[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago

This is also acceptable

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't a petit bourgeois someone who has to labor alongside their workers? This is not true of all small business tyrants

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's true but the point where a business becomes profitable enough that the owner doesn't need to work anymore is usually when it's either illegitimate, or not small at all. So I don't know if the distinction is really worth making, it's kinda like multimillionaire vs capitalist. Not all multimillionaires are capitalists, but it's very rare to be one without being a capitalist.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Businesses don't really need to be that large for the owner to delegate the day to day business to a manager and sit back accumulating surplus value

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

It varies from industry to industry, but from my own experience I've heard of people making tens of millions who still have to pop in and drive a truck or handle a lot of paperwork if they're missing personnel for whatever reason. Even if it's not a regular thing, that would still fall under the Marxist definition of petite bourgeois.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

no one knows what 'bourgeoisie' means or even how to spell it, and liberals think the word 'kulak' is an ethnic slur/genocide denial phrase, so idk what else to use

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You: Literally just say "petite burgosee"

Everyone here: Petite burgo-, petite bourgo-, petite borgo-, petite burgei-, petite

etc etc

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Bour: they're boring

Geo: they rule the world

Isie: spelling bourgeoisie is easy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

The Mickey Mouse song works too!

B O U.... R G E... O I S I E! Bourgeoisie! (Bourgeoisie) Bourgeoisie! (Bourgeoisie) Who steals the surplus value from you and me? B O U, R G E, OISIE!

And if you aren't old as shit none of this makes sense or is helpful, so definitely listen to the above comment instead. But if you know the tune it'll make you giggle at least

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

actually it's good

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

geordi-no "small business owners"

geordi-yes "large adult business sons"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Petit bourgeoisie?

geordi-no

Little Burgers?

geordi-yes

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

I thought all small business tyrants were petit bourgeoisie, but not all petit bourgeoisie are small business tyrants. It's a term for the anyone ones.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Yea but you get weird looks when you call the owner of the local lawnscaping company a "fucking worthless parasite" in polite company

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

No one can spell that. Bogueioigieios has like ninety letters and tyrant only has seven.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Actually, you know what...

Bourgeoisie sounds too ancient to me, since it's all, yk, a descriptor for the capitalists when they were younger, revolutionary, and still somewhat medieval-derived,

Petty capitalists are more modern term to what I know...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

I personally replace 'small business owners' with 'appalling jizz piss boners'

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Yeah but one of them sounds like the nerd emoji and nobody likes that emoji

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

"extremely" no

"infantile" also no

"phrase" I guess

petty job nerd