The lumpenproletariat are sometimes called the 'underclass', and in advanced capitalist economies the line between professional middle-classes and petit-bourgeois blurs due to capital infusions from the top.

Now if you are not marxists, you may drop some of the classes or simply call them something else. haute bourgeoisie - landed aristocracy & other capitalists who live from investment alone petit-bourgeoisie - Professionals and small scale managers who hire workers but work alongside themĤ. professional middle-classes (engineers or tradesmen who do not typically hire employees)ģ. lumpenproletariat (commonly considered to include vagabonds, criminals or the 'unthinking poor')ģ. the working class - factory workers, peasants, and people who earn only by their labourĢ.

Now you say that petit bourgeois is part of the working class, but many would disagree as Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels popularized a more fine grained definition of social classes as follows:ġ. That's a fair statement to make, and one that I have heard before but the definition of what constitutes the working class is arguable thus most people predefine it per scope of conversation, and not in a global sense.įor example, in the UK, commonly doctors and lawyers have not been considered part of the working class, regardless of if their investments outside of their profession.īecause a doctor can work independently, and hire other workers like nurses, and attendants, and own all of their tools of trade outright, they are part of the petit bourgeois.

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