In using and indeed insisting on the term "Middle classes,"

(我之所以)坚持使用"中产阶级"这个词
What[what] I'm suggesting is the enormous complexity of the middle class.

是为了强调中产阶级的无比复杂
There wasn't just one middle class.

中产阶级不仅仅是一个阶级
Yet the middle classes shared some cultural values

这个阶级有一些共同的文化价值观和标志
and symbols in common and when challenged by ordinary people

在受到普通人群挑战的时候
could snap back in an extremely cohesive class-based manner.

他们会以一种很强的阶级凝聚力进行回击
Marx had some of that quite correctly.

马克思对此有相当精辟的论述
In a Parisian newspaper called the Journal des Debats in 1847,

在1874年的巴黎辩论报上
someone actually did a pretty damn good job

有人对布尔乔亚
of describing the bourgeoisie.

做出十分准确形象的描述
"The bourgeoisie is not a class," The person argued.

"布尔乔亚不是一个阶级" 作者说
"It is a position.

"而是一种地位