Marx and Engels talk of the labor aristocracy as a bourgeois-ified working class of dual character. Sometimes they call this the middle class. Not long after Lenin and those similarly critical of the British and German revolutionary potentials described these relations as petty bourgeois, and this continued throughout the Bolsheviks to include basic all subsequent Marxist Leninists, Trotskyists, Maoists, etc., and even modern folks that just call themselves Marxist.
The PMC is a much later term. It’s from the 70s. But they are definitely described in their own way by Marx et al in their early form.
Marx and Engels talk of the labor aristocracy as a bourgeois-ified working class of dual character. Sometimes they call this the middle class. Not long after Lenin and those similarly critical of the British and German revolutionary potentials described these relations as petty bourgeois, and this continued throughout the Bolsheviks to include basic all subsequent Marxist Leninists, Trotskyists, Maoists, etc., and even modern folks that just call themselves Marxist.
The PMC is a much later term. It’s from the 70s. But they are definitely described in their own way by Marx et al in their early form.