ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Marx defined the proletariat as the social class having no significant ownership of the means of production (factories, machines, land, mines, buildings, vehicles) and whose only means of subsistence is to sell their labor power for a wage or salary.

Detailed explanation-2: -Proletariats: those who have nothing to sell but their labor-power (their capacity to work). Bourgeois: owners of the means of production who sell commodities produced by the proletariat).

Detailed explanation-3: -In Marxism, the proletariat is a social class that did not own the means of production. Proletarians are wage-laborers who often work for/in; unsanitary workplaces, inadequate wages, and hazardous conditions are often cruelly treated and are the poorest and lowest class who own little or no property.

Detailed explanation-4: -The proletariat are employed by and exploited by the bourgeoisie (ruling class) and often suffer from false class consciousness and therefore often accept their own exploitation as inevitable. However, Marx argued that the proletariat would eventually have a revolution and overturn the capitalist system.