USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In the theory of Karl Marx, the term proletariat designated the class of wage workers who were engaged in industrial production and whose chief source of income was derived from the sale of their labour power.

Detailed explanation-2: -The proletariat (/ˌproʊlɪˈtɛəriət/; 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.

Detailed explanation-3: -Karl Marx defined the working class or proletariat as individuals who sell their labour power for wages and who do not own the means of production. He argued that they were responsible for creating the wealth of a society.

Detailed explanation-4: -The modern middle class may be viewed as the proletariat class in general but cannot be counted as the revolutionary proletariat class because it does not have objective conditions such as collective benefits and ways of life that would allow it to develop class consciousness for a socialist revolution.