petit-bourgeoisie
True Confessions of a Market Trader
This text, completed in January 2001, is an analysis of some aspects of working as a stallholder in a market in Camden, and a glance at what it means to be "petit-bourgeois" in Marxist terms in today's epoch.
“I am technically a petit-bourgeois - I buy and sell, and trade in a market. I am not “petit-bourgeois” if by that is meant “small capitalist”, since I never employ anybody, except in the way almost everyone does, like they might pay a car mechanic or electrician, for example.
