Bourgeois socialism

Conservative or Bourgeois Socialism was a term used by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in various pieces (including in the Communist Manifesto).

The Marxian view is such that the bourgeois socialist is the sustainer of the current state of bourgeois class relations. Opinions vary as to whether this or that bourgeois socialist intentionally is excusing the current order but the common thread is that they are, in objective fact, preserving it. Rather than abolishing class divisions, they wish to simply raise everyone up to be a member of the bourgeoisie, to allow everyone the ability to endlessly accumulate capital without a working class. In the Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels use philanthropists, monks ("temperance fanatics"), and reformers as examples of this type of socialist that they saw as opposed to their own aims.

In this class, Marx explicitly referenced Proudhon's The Philosophy of Misery, stating:

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The Socialistic bourgeois want all the advantages of modern social conditions without the struggles and dangers necessarily resulting therefrom.

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External links

Section of Communist Manifesto dealing with bourgeois socialism.

Marxist phraseology and terminology

Philosophy and politics (Marxist)	Base and superstructure Bourgeoisie Bourgeois nationalism Bourgeois socialism Capitalist mode of production Class struggle Commodification Socialist mode of production Pure communism Dictatorship of the proletariat Imperialism Liquidationism Lumpenproletariat Means of labor Metabolic rift Petite bourgeoisie Primitive accumulation of capital Proletarian internationalism Proletarian revolution Revolutionary wave Scientific socialism Super-imperialism Historical materialism Theoretician Two Stage Theory Wage slavery World revolution Dialectics

Economics and sociology (Marxian)	Capital Accumulation of capital Capitalist mode of production Crisis of capitalism Commodity Commodity production Materialism Means of production Mode of production Productive forces Relations of production Law of value Surplus value Use-value Exchange value Value Socially necessary labour time Socialization Production for use Socialist mode of production Ruling class Simple commodity production Commanding heights of the economy

Marxist-Leninist	Cadre Central Committee Democratic centralism Dual power Enemy of the people Foco General line of the party New class Politburo Political rehabilitation Popular front Revolutionary terror United front Vanguardism Social fascism Socialist accumulation Real socialism Revisionism Soviet democracy Socialism in one country Social imperialism People's democracy

Trotskyist	Deformed workers' state Degenerated workers' state Social revolution New class Permanent revolution Bureaucratic collectivism

Maoist	Marxism–Leninism–Maoism Antagonistic contradiction Capitalist roader Four Olds Mass line New Democracy People's war Revolutionary base area Struggle session

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