Key Terms of Marxism and Class: Define and Debate

[TC]

It seems that there is a huge variety of usage of a number of key terms in Marxist theory, so the purpose of this thread is for people to define the following terms in their own words - and to debate disagreements over meaning. Alternatively you could argue that a term is confused, or not appropriate, or synonymous with another term or you can offer multiple meanings.

If possible, describe the interrelations of these concepts. Do these terms belong to different vocabularies (Marxian theoretic terms vs terms used in liberal political discourse?)

If you think some terms are dated or some terms should not be used or have lost their meaning, say so.

Most important though, be precise.


Classes
1. Proletariat

2. Industrial Proletariat

3. Working Class

4. Agricultural Worker

5. Peasantry

6. Service Worker

7. Intelligentsia

8. Lumpenproletariat

9. Petit-Bourgeois

10. Bourgeois

11. National Bourgeois

12. Comprador Bourgeois

13. Capitalist

14. Finance Capitalist

15. Industrial Bourgeois

16. Employee

17. Employer

18. Owner

19. Manager

20. Middle Class

21. Upper Class

22. Upper middle class

23. Ruling class

24. Bourgeois democracy

25. Dictatorship of the Proletariat

26. Workers state.

27. Socialism

28. Social Democracy

29. Communism

[Rooster]

Personally I think this just over inflates things. To most people a lot of those different identifications have the same basic meaning.

EDIT: Oh sorry, I'm just back in from work and I'm getting distracted with food.

I'll get back to this when im done eating om nom nom