To enforce its domination, it must ensure a definite mutual relationship with the petty bourgeoisie and, through its mediation, with the proletariat. To understand the dialectic of the relation ...

What did Marx call the classes? Ideally, Marxist theory recognises two main classes in each stage of production: the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, the owners of production means and the mass of ...

Before the proletariat succeeded in organizing itself under its own banner and taking the leadership of the rural masses, the petty-bourgeois revolutionists found a natural support in the peasant ...