The word bourgeoisie comes from the Germanic "baurgs" which means "strength"; however, others state that it derives from the French “bourgeoisie”. This term has two main meanings according to various sources, one of them is used to describe the social class that is made up of those economically well-off people who have a set of properties or a certain capital. Bourgeoisie is a word widely used in the political-economic context, but it also has its connotations in philosophy, sociology and history.
These people who are classified as "the bourgeoisie" belong to two types of social classes that are: the upper social class, made up of people with a high economic level who support themselves from their own professional or business businesses such as bankers, senior executives, shareholders of large companies, among others. For its part, there is the small social class built by individuals who have a good economic situation but not as much as the upper class, this includes family business owners and people who enjoy very good jobs.
The other possible conception of bourgeoisie lies in the time of the Middle Ages to refer to the social class constituted mainly by free artisans, merchants and those who were not subject to the feudal lords. And it was specifically for this time in Europe that the bourgeoisie originated, giving it this name because they lived in the boroughs, names of cities that were protected by great walls and were far away.
According to what is stated by the German philosopher and communist militant Karl Marx, the bourgeoisie is a social class of the capitalist regime, where those who compose it must be in charge of production, belonging to their own business and their situation is opposed to that of the working class.
