The Cuban industrial bourgeoisie had been forged in the context of the U.S. dominated neocolonial republic, and it therefore was a “figurehead bourgeoisie,” totally subordinated to U.S. capital.

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LEWIS: Well, I think that the black bourgeois see, like the white bourgeoisie, is just taking on the very system of the society that they live in. Acquisition of wealth, acquisition of material ...

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Mann was interested in the decadence of the bourgeoisie, and he cast the kernel of repression as the bomb at its center. That basically came from his own family’s experiences.

The bourgeoisie, for their part, did not completely reject the customs and habits of the old elite, as witnessed by nouveau riche govigama families marrying into the Kandyan aristocracy. Given the all ...