Ask Lemmygrad

Yes. Most people do not understand how petit the petit bourgeois are going by strict Marxist orthodoxy. Most of the people that we think of as petit bourgeoisie are actually the moyen bourgeoisie. The bourgeois who don’t sell their labor but are too small to be of significance ie car dealership owners, chain franchisees, etc. To make the point, Uber drivers are technically petit bourgeoisie because they own their cars. It’s why some modern scholars have argued for new categories like the “precariat,” arguing that Marx’s class categories are outdated in a modern context

I think the unadjusted for truth is the proletarianization of the petit bourgeoisie. Think about the difference between someone who owned a limo and ran a car service in the 80s vs an Uber driver now. Capitalism consumes itself in pursuit of profits as the entire world is ‘rationalized’ and commodified in the face of an overall decline in the rate of profit