Socialism was adopted by the petit bourgeoisie as a critique of bourgeois excess.

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• Socialism became the banner of petit-bourgeois members appalled by capitalism (similarity 0.93)
• Black petit bourgeois ideology rested on fragile capitalist indulgence. (similarity 0.84)
• Nonviolent mass action handed liberation to the petit bourgeoisie (similarity 0.84)
• The English bourgeoisie extracted moral discipline from working-class cultural goods to forge imperial unity. (similarity 0.82)
• Early socialism aimed to complete bourgeois revolutions against feudalism (similarity 0.81)
• The sphere of exchange generates capitalism’s spontaneous commonsense and bourgeois theory (similarity 0.79)
• Marx broke with political economy by abstracting structures apart from individuals (similarity 0.79)
• Social stability must never come at the cost of necessary change or social justice (similarity 0.79)
• Liberal Catholic movements accepted bourgeois liberal thought while remaining Catholic. (similarity 0.79)
• The petit bourgeoisie assumed proletarian leadership and then betrayed it. (similarity 0.79)
• Economism reduces social formations to a single line of economic determination (similarity 0.79)
• Marxist ideology carries a negative judgment and must be analyzed as superstructure (similarity 0.79)
• Socialism originated as an alternative bourgeois strategy against feudal inequality (similarity 0.78)
• Caesarism is a compromise between fundamental social forces, distinct from Bonapartism. (similarity 0.78)
• Critics doubted Du Bois’s Marxism went beyond Marx’s pages on English slave-trade wealth (similarity 0.78)