Drug dealers

[Jack]

What class would drug dealers fall under? Technically they can be called lumpen, but most could also fall under petite bourgeois or bourgeois, so how are they classified?

[Psy]

What class would drug dealers fall under? Technically they can be called lumpen, but most could also fall under petite bourgeois or bourgeois, so how are they classified?
Drug lords are bourgeois as they simply reap the surplus value of the production and distribution of illegal drugs. Workers of drug cartels are proletariat, free-lance agents that offer services to drug cartels are petite bourgeois.

[Jack]

Drug lords are bourgeois as they simply reap the surplus value of the production and distribution of illegal drugs. Workers of drug cartels are proletariat, free-lance agents that offer services to drug cartels are petite bourgeois.

That I understand, but because they make their entire living through illegal means, couldn't they be classified as lumpen?

[khad]

That I understand, but because they make their entire living through illegal means, couldn't they be classified as lumpen?
Yes, they are lumpen. It's working class communities who have to suffer.

[which doctor]

I sold cocaine to black people, and I don't consider myself lumpen. I'm working class making money on the side.