1N-SING-COLL [with singular or plural verb]（马克思主义理论中的）资产阶级 In Marxist theory, the bourgeoisie are the middle-class people who own most of the wealth in a capitalist system. （马克思主义理论中的）资产阶级 [technical]
...the suppression of the proletariat by the bourgeoisie.