The Bourgeoisie is a sociologically defined social class equivalent to the upper classes. They are contrasted with the proletariat by their relative affluence and their cultural and financial capital. In Marxist philosophy, the bourgeoisie is the social class that came to own the means of production during modern industrialization and whose societal concerns are the value of property and the preservation of capital to ensure the perpetuation of their economic supremacy in society. The bourgeoisie is the most important class of society opposing the proletariat, insofar as the employees their wages are higher possible while the owners intend to increase their profits by employing labor…   Read more

Abstentionism is a term in election procedure for when a participant does not go to vote. Abstention must be contrasted with "blank vote", in which a voter casts a ballot willfully made invalid by marking it wrongly or by not marking anything at all. An abstention may be used to indicate the voting individual's ambivalence about the measure, or mild disapproval that does not rise to the level of active opposition. Abstention can also be used when someone has a certain position about an issue, but since the popular sentiment supports the opposite, it might not be politically expedient to vote according to his or her conscience. Some non-voters claim that voting does not make any positive…   Read more