[lbo-talk] Petty Bourgeois (was "Big Business Takes Distance... ")

[Carrol Cox]

But the essence of the p.b. is to be between classes, the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. They vacillate, and are politically unreliable. I’m talking middle managers, engineers, etc.

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No. The (classical) pb were _outside_ capitalism, independent peasantry being the essence of the class.

Carrol