What did Marx and Engels fail to anticipate about social classes,which neo-Marxists have since attempted to address?
A)They failed to anticipate the declining ownership of assets among the proletariat in in the twentieth century.
B)They failed to anticipate the growing size of a middle class in the twentieth century.
C)They failed to anticipate the shrinking size of the bourgeoisie in the twentieth century.
D)They failed to anticipate the shrinking disparity in wealth between the bourgeoisie and the middle class in the twentieth century.

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Marx and Engels did not anticipate the growth of a significant middle class in the twentieth century, as they believed that society would polarize into two classes: the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. Neo-Marxists have since attempted to address this by introducing the concept of a "new class" or "managerial class" that occupies a privileged position in the capitalist system but is not easily classified as either bourgeoisie or proletariat. They have also emphasized the importance of cultural and symbolic forms of inequality, which may be just as important as economic class divisions.

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