>>534536Do you think doctors and lawyers and IT sysadmins fit the definition of the dispossessed proletariat to whom communism is a necessity? Use your brain for fuck's sake.
>every section of the middle class from the "highly genteel" annuitant and Fundholder who looks upon all sorts of business as vulgar, to the little shopkeeper and lawyer's clerk.https://marxengels.public-archive.net/en/ME1912en.htmlFrom the above it should be clear enough that 'middle class' and 'petite-bourgeois' are identical terms today. In England in the 1800s between the aristocracy at the top and the proletariat at the bottom, both the bourgeoisie proper and PB were referred to as 'the middle classes'. Hence why Marx in another article also notes that the bourgeoisie is only 'the highest stratum of the middle classes': '[…..] the bourgeoisie —which is only the highest stratum of the middle classes'.
http://marxengels.public-archive.net/en/ME0857en.htmlToday, when aristocrats and landlords do not form an opposing side against the bourgeoisie, the term 'middle class' now refers exclusively to the petite-bourgeoisie, which is now in the middle between the two other great classes of society - the bourgeoisie and the proletariat.