A feudal insult against the bourgeoisie was reused by bourgeois culture against workers

Evidence

Thus a polemical riposte made by feudal culture against the developing bourgeoisie has now been appropriated by European bourgeois culture, on the one hand against a more developed form of capitalism than the European, and on the other hand against the practical activity of subaltern social groups. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1613

Categorization

• XREF: This is a mechanism version of ‘common sense’ and hegemony — how ruling ideas recycle older ideologies as weapons against subaltern groups. Core to the toolkit. — connects to: Hatred of domestic dirt can curdle into murderous class violence — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1225