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Olivier Babeau: "Praise of the bourgeoisie"

2022-12-13T19:17:48.194Z


TRIBUNE – In our country, hatred of the bourgeois is as widespread as it is unfair, argues the essayist. Far from being idle, the bourgeoisie works enormously and derives its pride and legitimacy from it. The imperfection of meritocracy calls for its improvement and not its negation by...


Olivier Babeau is president of the Sapiens Institute (think-tank).

"Bourgeois!"

On social networks, the term, widely used, is worth stigma and condemnation.

As if he carried so much obvious guilt in himself that it was not necessary to say more about it.

The ideological rut in which France is blocked is there entirely.

It explains the dramatic downgrading of our country.

The bourgeois are criticized for embodying a triply unjust order: social parasites, they would succeed effortlessly thanks to inheritance and would lock in the mechanisms of an immutable domination reproducing the class society of the Old Regime.

There would be no essential difference between the noble caste of yesteryear and the bourgeois caste, the second adding to the first only the imposture of claiming to be just.

It is important to counter these criticisms.

A great ignorance of economic realities

What (or who) are we talking about?

The bourgeois is etymologically the one who lives in the town, that is to say…

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Source: lefigaro

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