proletariat.

About proletariat

The proletariat is the socioeconomic class of wage laborers, members of a capitalist society whose most significant economic value is their labour power. A member of such a class is a proletarian or a worker. Marxist philosophy regards the proletariat under conditions of capitalism as an exploited class,⁠ deprived of the means of production and thereby forced to operate means of production held as private property by the capitalist class, receiving wages which represent less than the value their labour produced, the remainder appropriated by the bourgeoisie as profits.