petty-bourgeois
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[edit]petty-bourgeois (not comparable)
- Alternative spelling of petty bourgeois
- 1985, John S. Saul, chapter I, in John S. Saul, editor, A Difficult Road: The Transition to Socialism in Mozambique, New York: Monthly Review Press, →ISBN, section 1, page 46:
- At the very moment when their petty-bourgeois counterparts were coming to power elsewhere in Africa, these Mozambicans found the Portuguese turning their backs on neocolonialism and digging in their heels militarily against any such denouement to their rule.