Any signs of "having the thoughts ofpettybourgeois," or simply "not acting revolutionary enough" could lead to political vituperation.
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Yet, in the decisive days of 1956, he played the resolute hardliner, telling students that to advocate change to 'social science' revealed a 'reactionarypettybourgeoislifestyle'.
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The movement's backbone was formed principally by men of this type, the recently risen or currently risingpettybourgeois, for whom unification had been a formative experience.
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I accept that somepettybourgeoiselements will not be represented in the electoral college because of their lack of stakeholding in the community, based on rateable value.
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This was perhaps because of oppositions between his formalism (literature) formalist style and the advocates of proletarian literature, who misjudged him as apettybourgeois.
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Instead, he felt that the party was apettybourgeoisorganization moving toward liberalism.
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In both the north and the south, a stablepettybourgeoisclass emerged.
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Furthermore, in countries where modern civilisation has become fully developed, a new class ofpettybourgeoishas been formed.
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Their relationship with one another was in accordance with thepettybourgeoispatriarchal norms of the time.
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An anti-liberal and anti-socialist campaign was led to mobilize thepettybourgeois, those who lost the most to industrialization's fluctuations.
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Even more unwelcome to the party was the persistence among writers of what was deplored aspettybourgeois idealism, humanitarianism, and an insistence on freedom to choose subject matter.
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