https://prole.wiki/w/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=Ps1+leninProleWiki - User contributions [en]2026-10-28T02:49:25ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.43.11https://prole.wiki/w/index.php?title=Proletariat&diff=39194Proletariat2022-11-22T16:16:46Z<p>Ps1 lenin: Added a quote from Principles of Communism by Engels to help explain the earlier conception of the term.</p>
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<div>The '''proletariat''' is the [[social class]] of [[Wage slavery|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'''. <br />
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[[Marxism]] considers the proletariat to be oppressed by [[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 claimed that this oppression gives the proletariat [[Workers of the world, unite!|common economic and political interests]] that transcend national boundaries, impelling them to unite and [[Dictatorship of the proletariat|take over power]] from the capitalist class, and eventually to create a [[Communism|communist]] society free from class distinctions. <br />
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In ''[[The Principles of Communism]]'', [[Friedrich Engels]] explains that the proletariat is "that class in society which lives entirely from the sale of its [[labour]] and does not draw profit from any kind of [[capital]]." Their "sole existence depends on the demand for labor," and therefore the bourgeoisie subjects them to competition amongst their fellow workers.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Friedrich Engels|newspaper=Marxists Internet Archive|title=The Principles of Communism|date=1847|url=https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm|retrieved=11-22-2022}}</ref><br />
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The interests of the proletarian are in conflict with those of the bourgeois. <br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* [[Precariat]]<br />
*[[Useless class]]<br />
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==External Links==<br />
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*[[wikipedia:Proletariat|Wikipedia]] ([[Wikipedia|about]])<br />
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*EcuRed ([https://www.ecured.cu/Proletariado Spanish], [https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ecured.cu%2FProletariado English auto translated]) ([[EcuRed|about]])<br />
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