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The proletariat (from Latin Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help), a citizen of the lowest class) is a term used to identify a lower social class, usually the working class; a member of such a class is proletarian. Originally it was identified as those people who had no wealth other than their children.

See also

• Bourgeosie
• Blue collar
• Folk culture
• Laborer
• Lower class
• Lumpenproletariat
• Peasantry
• Precariat
• Prole drift
• Prolefeed
• Proles
• Proletarianization
• Proletarian internationalism
• Slavery
• Social Class
• Social class in ancient Rome
• Working class
• Wage slavery

Reference notes

Further reading

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• Hal Draper, Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution, Vol. 2; The Politics of Social Classes. (New York: Monthly Review Press 1978).

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