Status Updates From Communist Manifesto

Note 1/2:
M&E's dichotomy of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie makes me think: was there not even a concept of the middle class in M&E's time?

2 things to think about:
i) M&E explicitly discuss the small business owner. This class owns capital, they hire labour, they are definitely capitalists in their own right. But M&E claim that over time, even this class will get subsumed into the proletariat, because they ...

why am i genuinely invested

i dont know either man. but i need to read more political lit and where else to start but here