The attitudes, values, or way of life characteristic of burghers; the philosophy or system of middle-class urban society.
From 'burgher' plus the suffix '-ism' (system, practice, belief), describing the ideology and cultural patterns of the merchant and citizen class.
Karl Marx actually criticized 'burgherism' as complacent middle-class thinking—but ironically, burghers were the revolutionaries of their time, overthrowing feudal lords with money and law.
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