The petite bourgeois make up something like 10% of the population in the US if we're going off small business owner numbers. You could absolutely win without a single one of them on your side, provided you got a big enough chunk of the remaining 90~%, and it'll be a lot easier to convince the latter when their material interests align with socialists.
The petite bourgeois make up something like 10% of the population in the US if we're going off small business owner numbers. You could absolutely win without a single one of them on your side, provided you got a big enough chunk of the remaining 90~%, and it'll be a lot easier to convince the latter when their material interests align with socialists.