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What (who) is proletariat - definition

SOCIAL CLASS

Proletarians; Prolies; Proletariate; Proletaria; Proletarii; Industrial working class; Proleterian; Prole drift; Proletarian drift; Proletariet; Proleteriat; Proletarian politics; Industrial workers; Proletarian; Proletariat (Marxist theory); Propertyless

proletariat

The proletariat is a term used to refer to workers without high status, especially industrial workers.

...a struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat.

= working class

N-SING-COLL: the N

Proletariat

·noun The indigent class in the State; the body of proletarians.

proletariat

(also archaic proletariate)

¦ noun [treated as sing. or plural]

1. workers or working-class people (often used with reference to Marxism).

2. the lowest class of citizens in ancient Rome.

Origin

C19: from Fr. proletariat, from L. proletarius (see proletarian).

Wikipedia

Proletariat

The proletariat (; from Latin proletarius 'producing offspring') is the social class of wage-earners, those members of a society whose only possession of significant economic value is their labour power (their capacity to work). A member of such a class is a proletarian. Marxist philosophy considers the proletariat to be exploited under capitalism, forced to accept meager wages in return for operating the means of production, which belong to the class of business owners, the bourgeoisie.

Marx argued that this oppression gives the proletariat common economic and political interests that transcend national boundaries, impelling them to unite and take over power from the capitalist class, and eventually to create a communist society free from class distinctions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proletarian

Examples of use of proletariat

1. And he wasn‘t exactly a member of the toiling proletariat.

2. Communists liked to amalgamate people into broad groupings –– the proletariat, the peasantry, the intelligentsia.

3. Fashionable sociologists have long been discussing the "disappearance of the proletariat" in Western countries.

4. The dictatorship of the proletariat – in Thatcher‘s case, of the bourgeoisie – entrenched itself and defied synthesis.

5. And the orthodox Soviet line was that Marxism belonged to the proletariat.