The interests of proletarians, whose conditions of life—depriving them of all hope of becoming masters—compel them to strive for a complete transformation of all the foundations of capitalist social order.

The interests of petty proprietors, who struggle against the oppression of capital, but by virtue of the very conditions of their life strive to become masters themselves, to consolidate their petty economy, and to enrich themselves through commerce and the hiring of workers.