The Bourgeoisie in pre industrial capitalism was still a "middle class" of sorts, having less power than the landed aristocracy. It's only with industrial capit

The Bourgeoisie in pre industrial capitalism was still a "middle class" of sorts, having less power than the landed aristocracy. It's only with industrial capitalism that the capital owners are the most powerful, the aristocracy marries in to them, and the homogoenized unskilled workforce distinguished from the older small-scale trades and crafts diverges as the working class.