1. peasantry
2. proletariat
3. petite bourgeoisie
4. national bourgeoisie
* The above are in that order. Mao Zedong (spelt thus in Mandarin Chinese), or Chairman Mao if you wish, was the Leader of Communist China for over 33 years. His brand of communism is known as Maoism.
The above classification of the Chinese population dates from 1949.
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