Lexic.us

Definition of Petty bourgeoisie

1. Noun. Lower middle class (shopkeepers and clerical staff etc.).

Definition of Petty bourgeoisie

1. Noun. (Marxism) A social class of that bourgeoisie that typically works alongside their employees if they have any, exemplified by shopkeepers and professionals. ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Petty Bourgeoisie

Literary usage of Petty bourgeoisie

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Criminality and Economic Conditions by Willem Adriaan Bonger (1916)
"B. THE petty bourgeoisie. In reality the line of demarcation between the bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie is not drawn with the precision desirable for ..."

2. Modern Socialism: As Set Forth by Socialists in Their Speeches, Writings by Robert Charles Kirkwood Ensor (1907)
"Quite different it is with those sections of the petty bourgeoisie which have not ... It is to this division in the ranks of the petty bourgeoisie that the ..."

3. Revolution and Counter-revolution: Or, Germany in 1848 by Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx (1919)
"The petty bourgeoisie, great in boasting, is very impotent for action, ... Accordingly the petty bourgeoisie encouraged insurrection by big words, ..."

4. Modern Socialism as Set Forth by Socialists in Their Speeches, Writings, and by Robert Charles Kirkwood Ensor (1904)
"From this double situation there arises a split in the ranks of the petty bourgeoisie. One position of it identifies itself with the proletariat, ..."

5. Ferdinand Lassalle as a Social Reformer by Eduard Bernstein (1893)
"... alongside of the bourgeoisie against absolute monarchy, feudal squirearchy, and petty bourgeoisie.2 The February Revolution in France, and the March ..."

6. Hope for South Africa? by Lewis H. Gann, Peter Duignan (1991)
"... within it, the South African working class has begun to exert its organized leadership over the other oppressed groups—the black petty bourgeoisie, ..."

7. The Proletarian Revolution in Russia by Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin, Leon Trotsky (1918)
"... against the chauvinism of the "national defense" attitude, against a dependence on the petty bourgeoisie. Let us form a proletarian communistic party, ..."

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