Bourgeois rule absorbs and assimilates society, unlike closed-caste prior ruling classes

Evidence

The sociological characteristic of the middle class is its openness at either boundary, whereas it is typical of the nobility, albeit with modifications, to be closed at both. Upward and downward, the middle class expands; the nobility repulses. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 485 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: England’s nobility absorbed bourgeois functions to preserve the ruling system; An economically displaced class can retain political and intellectual supremacy; The middle class is open at both boundaries while nobility is closed at both — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 485 (+2 more)

Related

• The middle class is open at both boundaries while nobility is closed at both (similarity 0.82)
• The rising middle class could not afford the elite’s strategy of spatial self-segregation (similarity 0.79)
• Bourgeois law and state aim to absorb the whole of society into itself (similarity 0.79)
• Feudal elites can keep leading a bourgeois state without fusing with the bourgeoisie (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The middle class is open at both boundaries while nobility is closed at both #expands (0.90) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 485
• An economically displaced class can retain political and intellectual supremacy #complicates (0.85)
• Feudal elites can keep leading a bourgeois state without fusing with the bourgeoisie #exemplifies (0.85)
• England’s nobility absorbed bourgeois functions to preserve the ruling system #corroborates (0.82)
• Conflating class-State with regulated society is a reactionary middle-class error #qualifies (0.78)