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The bourgeoisie is the ruling class in Marx's theory of class struggle under capitalism. The bourgeoisie is the property-owning class who own the means of production (e.g. factories) and employ and exploit the proletariat. Marxists argue that the bourgeoisie maintains its power through ideology as well as oppression but that the proletariat should ultimately have a revolution and overthrow them to establish a communist state.