Too complicated. Repeat after me, there are just two classes, bourgeois and proletarian. Too much thinking makes me ill, think I'll have another gin. Doug <<<<<>>>>>
of course, the big, er, bearded guy also suggests that those who stand between the workers and the capitalists/landlords are burden weighing heavily on former and serve to increase power and security of latter, in fact, his dudeness calls this 'middle stratum' *functionaries*...
while dj khm1 distinguishes variety of classes and class factions, and he makes note of various agents of production, he consistently calls attention - above all - to relations of production between capital and labor... mh