I ' d be happy trade you pokerus for the sandshrew ! <| sep |> What thee fuck is going on ? ????<| sep |> I haven ' t fired mine up yet , but the reason I bought it was because it came so highly recommended . <| sep |> If I were a cop having to work Thanksgiving because of idiots who didn ' t go through the normal channels to protest then I ' d be aiming for their heads as well . <| sep |> I ' ll quote Principles of Communism since the definition of a bourgeois stands . In fact , I don ' t think the lines for either one have been blurred . The class of big capitalists , who , in all civilized countries , are already in almost exclusive possession of all the means of subsistance and of the instruments machines , factories and materials necessary for the production of the means of subsistence . This is the bourgeois class , or the bourgeoisie . Basically , those in control of the means of production . The ruling elite of capitalism . Land can be used to establish means of production , but if it ' s used for subsistence no , you would not be a bourgeois at all . Proletarians continue to be the majority , which are the vast majority of workers . The workers have no control of the means of production and must sell their labor to survive wage labor . People owning small or medium businesses tend to be the pettybourgeoisie , though as I understand it that depends more on their ideology regarding socialism . The Communist Manifesto has a section on them . I don ' t see how a person simply working retail is closer to a bourgeois than a proletarian .