U.$. assets statistics demonstrate class structure United $tates Federal Reserve Bank data for 1998 just analyzed show that 56% of households headed by people over age 45 in the United $tates have assets over $100,000. In fact, even counting youth households, 42% of all households have assets over $100,000. MIM is the only organization calling itself Marxist- Leninist or Maoist in the imperialist countries which calls a majority of the population of Western imperialist countries petty-bourgeoisie. Other organizations live in dogmatist denial or opportunist social-chauvinism. They believe that it is necessary to kiss up to the oppressor nation so-called workers who are in fact a petty- bourgeoisie. In fact, this petty-bourgeoisie also despises the so-called communists kissing up to them with tall tales of economic catastrophe. The imperialist country middle-classes can see that these phony communists have no grip on reality. Note: Washington Post in Boston Globe 29July2001, p. e5.