ABSTRACT
It is, of course, impossible to say where the capitalist class ends and the class below it—the petite bourgeoisie—begins. There are infinite gradations of wealth and social status at every point of the scale, from the greatest capitalists to the lowest-paid labourers and the chronically unemployed. But undoubtedly there is a real division, as real and important as the distinction which Marx drew in The Communist Manifesto between the grande and the petite bourgeoisie, but of a radically different nature.
