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PEOPLE love to mock the middle class. Its narrow-mindedness, complacency and conformism are the mother lode of material for sitcom writers and novelists. But Marx thought “the bourgeoisie…has played a most revolutionary part” in history. And although The Economist rarely sees eye to eye with the father of communism, on this Marx was right.


If the next day went green, they were jubilant over the thought that they had discovered a cause of waste, only to see a red slat turn up in a day or two, ...

jubilant 
adjective
feeling or expressing great happiness, especially because of a success:
The fans were jubilant at/about/over England's victory.

jubilantly 
adverb

jubilation 
noun [U]
There was jubilation in the crowd as the winning goal was scored.

see eye to eye
If two people see eye to eye, they agree with each other:
My sisters don't see eye to eye with me about the arrangements.

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