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petty bourgeoisie

NOUN
  1. lower middle class (shopkeepers and clerical staff etc.)

How To Use petty bourgeoisie In A Sentence

  • The urban petty bourgeoisie is a reliable ally.
  • Unlike the petty bourgeoisie, they employ at least one worker, and therefore at least part of their income is derived from the exploitation of labor power. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies
  • Apart from farmers, even the old petty bourgeoisie have grown or remained stable as a proportion of the labour force.
  • Our closest friends are the entire semi-proletariat and petty bourgeoisie.
  • Political art consisted in fusing the petty bourgeoisie into oneness through its common hostility to the proletariat.
  • I came from a very different stable - Glasgow petty bourgeoisie with no inherited wealth. Times, Sunday Times
  • They occupy a contradictory class location between the petty bourgeoisie and the proletariat. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies
  • There is one basic social class within this simple commodity mode, the petty bourgeoisie. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies
  • Generally speaking, the class attribute of the intelligent in former China was ranked as petty bourgeoisie.
  • Apart from farmers, even the old petty bourgeoisie have grown or remained stable as a proportion of the labour force.
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