A secret report from the secretary of the TsKK to the okrug offices explained that "one always notices
petty-bourgeois leanings on the part of the comrades" in the shoemakers' and needleworkers' cells, "among whom the majority come from the kustari." (102) Others, like the aforementioned Comrade Vilenstovich, blamed the weak political development of oppositionists on the "petty-bourgeois--trading milieu" in which oppositionists invariably seemed to originate.
Working people must organise themselves independently of all bourgeois and
petty-bourgeois parties to defend their own interests.
As the introduction to the volume's 1973 second edition, written by SWP leaders George Novack and Joseph Hansen explains, Trotsky wrote against what he termed "an attempt to reject, disqualify, and overthrow the theoretical foundations, the political principles and organizational methods of our movement." The issues were sparked by the 1939 Soviet-German pact and attempts by groups associated with party leaders James Burnham, Martin Abern, and Max Shachtman (the "
petty-bourgeois opposition," in Trotsky's view) to reject the party's evaluation of the class nature of the Soviet state.
Put simply, it accused the party of relegating the proletariat to the background of what it described as the '
petty-bourgeois tenentista revolt'.
Beaumont identifies state socialist utopias as reflecting the contradictory class location of contemporary intellectuals, and more especially as a product of the "
petty-bourgeois temperament" (46).
Bathed in streams of Parisian bohemianism, socialist thought, and modern currencies of French writing, Synge opened up a conduit for expressions of frustration with '
petty-bourgeois nationalism, the <Gaelic> League's policy of standardizing Irish and [...] the conservatism of the Catholic Church' (p.
Her politics have been identified as liberal, proto-socialist, and revolutionary; her social sympathies as would be genteel, middle-class, professional, and
petty-bourgeois. This proliferation of images owes something to the unruliness of Wollstonecraft's work.
As we will see later, critics belong to a cultural elite, which is
petty-bourgeois in education or origin, and that, as Gramsci pointed out, reproduces the tastes of the bourgeoisie.
As for Vladimir Ia.'s family, presently the Soviet state could not guarantee the full maintenance of a family, but "everyone who starts a family must seriously contemplate whether he can protect it from hunger and misery." Kalinin wondered at Vladimir Ia.'s logic: "I myself marry, and the state cannot involve itself in this, but the state must guarantee the maintenance of my family." For Kalinin, the major issue was the unmasking of Vladimir Ia.'s
petty-bourgeois pessimism and lack of revolutionary faith.
Even if it brings in only a
petty-bourgeois salary, to accept
petty-bourgeois taste would feel like giving up hope on it as a profession.
They showed that there is a lower tendency towards inheritance among
petty-bourgeois daughters than sons (1992: 233).
In Iran, there is no populist movement; the constituencies that support populism have been absorbed into other groups, such as liberal democrats (radicalized modern middle class), monarchists (
petty-bourgeois army officers), the Mojahedin and other radical Leftists (industrial proletariat and large sections of the educated urban petty bourgeoisie), as well as the Islamic fundamentalists (recent rural-to-urban migrants).
But these seemingly
petty-bourgeois utopias can, as Alejandro Portes of Johns Hopkins is quoted
These works take us back beyond the spirit of Atkinson's initial reflection on Adorno's reflection on the shitted world of
petty-bourgeois morality, propriety, and Art, to T.
