Chemist Jailed In Russia For Giving Expert Opinion In Court

Actually, no..

While that *is* what the word means, and is applied correctly, remember that pre-revolution france was a fuedal society. The number of non-aristocrats that owned their own lands and homes was minimal.

It's the same thing as with the 1% of today. A tiny fraction of the population owned the vast majority of land, wealth, resources, and power.

The revolution started with the aristocrats, the "clearly" 1%-ers. This was not sufficient, as the bourgioes readily replaced them in tyrrany.

The problem resolved when the aristocrats, *and* the supporting class (privilaged private land owners) were eliminated. After that, the peasant class could be represented in government.

Eg, what I am getting at here, is that caiming "no, they were the middle class, not the 1%!" Is a nonsequitor, when the aristocrats represented.01%, and the bourgeois represented.99%, while the serf class represented 99%. The false comparison to today's "middle class" being a significantly larger portion of the population does not negate the assertion that the historic bourgeois were the 1%ers.

Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/QCmHxZb799k/chemist-jailed-in-russia-for-giving-expert-opinion-in-court

bolton muamba crystal cathedral sxsw st. patrick s day brandon lloyd brandon lloyd celtic thunder