Jessica, Bert's strong-willed but narrow-minded sister in law a former domestic servant who rose to a kind of petit bourgeois respectability and who tries to make Bert an errand boy in the family shop resembles Wells'mother who intended him to be a draper.
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As the old moguls came from petit bourgeois immigrant families, so do the Weinsteins . ( They named the company for mother Miriam and father Max, a diamond cutter . ) After dropping out of college, the brothers operated a second-run theater in Buffalo, N . Y ., and promoted rock concerts.
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:" We aren't a bunch of excited petit bourgeois, we're proletarian revolutionaries . " The echo is coincidental; I was making the point that " We're not comfortable middle-class do-nothings, we're the authentic / macho / committed hardcore " is a pretty common declaration.
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Or rather, Marx and Engels began to reveal the serious weaknesses and limitations of Fanon, especially his own petit bourgeois idealism that led him into mechanical overemphasis on psychology and violence, and his inability to see the significance of the rising and growing African proletariat . " Throughout " Decolonising the Mind ", Ngig ) stores great faith in the African " peasantry . " He credits them with keeping native African languages alive, and maintains throughout the book that it will be the empowerment of the lower classes alone that will be able to " bring about the renaissance in African cultures " and ultimately uplift African nations from their neocolonial conditions of oppression ( 23 ).
