As per Marxist concepts, bourgeoisie is the class of people who own and manage the means of production. At the dawn of industrial revolution the bourgeoisie was the downtrodden class with the feudal occupying the position of dominant class. But over a period the bourgeoisie as a consequence of industrial revolution overthrew the feudal power to become the dominant class. In this way bourgeoisie acted as, as per Marxist terminology, gravediggers for feudal.
Karl Marx as well as subsequent prominent communist leaders like Lenin used the term Grave digger to describe a rising revolutionary class which is destined to overthrow the ruling class. Marx wrote that though bourgeoisie acted as grave diggers for feudal, now by creating a vast under privileged working class their own grave diggers, as this oppressed class is bound to organize themselves and overthrow them in a revolutionary way.
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