WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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 value is their labour power (their capacity to work). A member of such a class is a proletarian.

Detailed explanation-2: -The proletariat are the working class in Karl Marx’s theory of class struggle under capitalism. 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.

Detailed explanation-3: —Proletariat-According to Marx, they were the “have nots.” The growing industrial working class who, according to Marx, were increasing in number just as the Bourgeoisie were decreasing.

Detailed explanation-4: -But from the beginning, Marx defined the working class not by the kind of work people did, but by their position in society–as “a class of laborers who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labor increases capital."