@cobrat, my friend was definitely a would be radical lefty. I think I may have said something like I wasn’t too worried about how expensive the Goethe Institute was since my parents had footed the bill. It was honest. I don’t know about that summer, but later when I was paying for it on my own dime, I know there were a lot of people in the class who were being paid by companies that they worked for.
In any event I just thought it was funny that bourgeois was such a bad word!