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In George Orwell's essay "Politics and the English Language", he refers to "[t]he jargon peculiar to Marxist writing (hyena, hangman, cannibal, petty bourgeois, these gentry, lackey, flunkey, mad dog, White Guard, etc.)". Seemingly these gentry means something other than simply "the aforementioned gentry" or "the local gentry". But I can't seem to find any such meaning with a Web search. Does anyone know what it means?

(For example, the phrase appears in Marx's July 11, 1868, letter to Kugelmann, but seems there to refer to a particular kind of gentry referred to earlier in the letter. These gentry is thus not a set phrase there.)

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