The existence of the bourgeoisie social class is one of the injustices of the world but it is so deeply ingrained into the minds of people through social programming that property ownership is inherent to our reality and exists as naturally as nature, trees, or the sun. This is obviously not true and the private ownership of property is inherently problematic and exploitative of the population. When we look at it this way, can we take seriously any attempts of the bourgeoisie to plead for their own innocence or claims of mistreatment from revolutionaries? Especially in cases where property was nationalized in dictatorial regimes such as Bautista’s Cuba or modern liberal regimes such as America and the European Union?

I have personally been confronted by people who were said to have fled these regimes about how their family had their companies taken away by Fidel Castro or that their family was personally broken apart by Mao Zedong. This has led me to wonder, are there any innocent bourgeoisie? In a country like America where the systems are plutocratic and police will swing batons on activists trying to unionize or protest against the regime, it seems very hard to argue for the innocence of those who knowingly benefit at the expense of every other person in society. It would even sound like satire if someone was to attempt such a thing.

In order to unpack why society is conditioned to believe certain things even when those contradict human evolution and behavior for thousands of years, we have to understand social programming. We are socially programmed to live in a capitalist society, so therefore we are trained to think anything that creates money or wealth is inherently morally good and good for the community. All of the ideas that society wants us to have are put into us from a young age before we independently make our own conclusions about the world and develop a worldview. The school system does this but some religious organizations contribute to social programming that supports the status quo. From this point of view, we can understand that the judgments that the higher social classes make about their own positions in society do not come from a deep philosophical analysis or moral judgements. They come from a position of self-interest and social programming which they do not question since they were once in a position to benefit from the ideas of capitalist society. Money messes with the heads of people so deeply that even decades after the masses take back their labor value from them, they continue to desire their old positions.