What is Class?
A group of people sharing common relations to labor and the means of production.
BOURGEOISIE CLASS (CAPITALISTS)
The bourgeoisie is a social class that came to own the means of production during the epoch(beginning) of modern industrialization and whose societal concerns are the value of property and the preservation of capital to ensure the perpetuation of their economic supremacy in society.
PROLETARIAT CLASS (WORKING CLASS)
Proletariat class is the class of wage earners in an economic society whose only possession of significant material value is their labour power(How much work they can do).
The proletariat are oppressed by capitalism and the wage system. This oppression gives the proletariat common economic and political interests that transcended national boundaries.
These common interests put the proletariat in a position to unite and take power away from the capitalist class.
PETTY BOURGEOISIE (MIDDLE CLASS)
The term "Petty Bourgeoisie" to identify the socio-economic stratum of the bourgeoisie that compromised small scale capitalists such as shop keepers and workers who manage the production, distribution and/or exchange of commodities and/or services owned by bourgeoisie employers. Petty bourgeoisie are not as committed to the revolution as much as the proletariats.
LUMPEN PROLETARIAT CLASS (OUTCAST MOB)
According to Karl Marx, the Lumpen proletariat are the lowest level of the proletariats compromising of unemployables, vagrants and criminals. They are also characterised by a lack of class identification and solidarity hence they can be easily exploited by the Counter-revolutionaries and the fascists but later Mao Zedong argues that lumpen proletariat can be swayed into class consciousness and the revolution later with proper leadership.
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