The bourgeoisie as a thinking subject with interests is an empty notion
Evidence
To put it another way: to the extent that these notions of “the bourgeoisie” and “the interests of the bourgeoisie” probably have no content, or at least not in terms of the problems we have just raised, what we have to realize is precisely that there was no such thing as a bourgeoisie that thought that madness should be excluded or that infantile sexuality had to be repressed; but there were mechanisms to — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 50
Categorization
- XREF: Displaces class-reductionist Marxism; connects to how Islamophobia theory resists reading state racism as a simple bourgeois conspiracy. — connects to: A weak bourgeoisie explains why no revolutionary vanguard party formed in Italy; Marxism is not economic reductionism and requires attending to ideas in their own terms; Marx decentered identity by lodging subjects inside un-chosen historical practices (+3 more)
Related
- A weak bourgeoisie explains why no revolutionary vanguard party formed in Italy (similarity 0.86)
- Bourgeois class interests serve no one’s genuine interests (similarity 0.80)
- The bourgeoisie disappeared as a self-conscious class by the 1970s (similarity 0.80)
- Barthes held that proletarian culture never exists, only bourgeois ideology (similarity 0.79)