Help me list the elements of bourgeois America.

[Writer]

I'll start:

COLLEGE DEGREE

[saltpoint]

1. Lou Reed.

[FrenchieCat]

2. Proper Articulation of everyday words to form a full sentence.

[MellowDem]

3. The internets...

and the fascist tubes that connect the owning class! Destroy the internets!!!!!1

[readmoreoften]

4. It really depends on what definition of "bourgeois" you're going with: Marxist or non-Marxist?

In 20th century American sociology, "bourgeois" means "middle class" and usually confused with petit bourgeois or even "well-off working class." This is not the Marxist definition.

The Marxist definition is highly specific: the ruling merchant class that began development in the late 16th century and by the 18th century rivaled the royalty for power and in the US, overthrew the very concept. A Marxist bourgeois owns/controls the means of production: factory owners and corporate CEOs. A petit bourgeois is a small business owner or "vassal" of the big bourgeois: restaurant owners, corporate lawyers and lesser stock brokers, finance mathematicians; but there is a "lesser" petit bourgeois as well that tends to fall back into the working class: web designers, small labor contractors, etc.

The working class are the people who pull a salary from the big bourgeois, the petit bourgeois, or the State: teachers, cops, soldiers, nationalized doctors, public defenders, laborers, etc. are all working class.

[Writer]

5. Although it would be very interesting to put together a Marxist list...

I'm definitely referring to the "non-Marxist" definition of bourgeois.

[McCamy Taylor]

6. Carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen---same as all living things.

[flying rabbit]

7. Decent healthcare. n/t

[Robb]

8. DU.

Sorry, but it is what it is.

[brooklynite]

9. People who use words like "Bourgeois"