Bohemian, Bourgeois

The bourgeois are terror-stricken at the growing workers’ revolutionary movement. This is understandable if we take into account that the development of events since the imperialist war inevitably favours the workers’ revolutionary movement, and that the world revolution is beginning and growing in intensity everywhere.” –Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Proletariat, plebeian, mass struggle and mass participation, revolutions (and revolts) against regimes, bourgeois, bohemia are disappearing from the public discourse across the world as the role and the number of bourgeois (middle class) has increased.

Bohemian is a noun and an adjective. Bohemian is an artist, writer or practising a form of art that has scant regard for rules and practices, customs and conventions. Bohemians are known for their free spirit and unconventional lifestyles.

Bohemian is an artist, writer, someone interested in music, literature and lives an informal life.

Few people have a bohemian lifestyles.

When bohemian is written with an uppercase ‘B’ it refers to a person hailing from Bohemia.

Bohemia is an area in the Czech Republic (formerly part of Czechoslovakia: countries too, disintegrate) bordering with Germany, Poland and Austria. It was once part of the Holy Roman Empire, and then Habsburgs’ Austrian Empire. And, Bohemian is a Czech language spoken in Bohemia.

Bohemian as an adjective refers to someone from Bohemia, to the language of Bohemia; attributing to the characteristic life of bohemians and to a person wandering like a Gypsy.

Bohemians could have bonhomie (state of cheerfulness, geniality) unlike the usual.

“I had a very artistic bohemian childhood. My father was an actor and a mime.” –Vonda Shepard
Bourgeois or bourgeoisie, noun, connotes to the middle class people; a socio-economic group in a society or a country that is intermediate or in-between the upper class and lower class.

The word originates from French, referring to a middle class member in France; and it referred to people living in the towns unlike in the countryside or rural areas.

In Marxist thought, bourgeois refers to that class of people exploiting the working class, or the class of people owning the means of production.

In political terminology from the Communist perspective, bourgeois is a capitalist exploiting the working class or engaging in a commercial enterprise.

As an adjective, it refers to the bourgeois, their mentality, member of the middle class, people hankering for material interests; those marked by mediocrity and marked by commercial interest, and those who are aspiring for respectability in the society.

The derivatives of bourgeois are bourgeoisification (noun) and bourgeoisify (verb).

If you refer someone to as bourgeois, it could also mean he or she is characteristic of materialism, philistinism.