> The bourgeoisie are a social class of business owners, merchants and wealthy people<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_class#Bourgeoisie" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_class#Bourg...</a><p>There is even a funny article here: <a href="https://danielmiessler.com/blog/a-bourgeoisie-primer" rel="nofollow">https://danielmiessler.com/blog/a-bourgeoisie-primer</a><p>There is more here: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/hilk3e/trying_to_understand_who_the_bourgeoisie_are/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/hilk3e/trying...</a><p>So, if you want to play it safe, you can say, "it's the upper middle class that own the businesses and factories"<p>I'll give it to you
> <i>No, it's the rich middle class</i><p>The "no" is incorrect. Some people use it to refer to the upper middle class. But this betrays the term's original Revolutionary as well as Marxists roots, and I'd argue, is inherently incorrect.<p>The main reason we blur these lines is because we want to call our poor middle class. And our rich don't want to admit that we're rich.