WORLD 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: -Definitions of proletariat. a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages. synonyms: labor, labour, working class.

Detailed explanation-3: -the working class–they were the oppressed. the oppressed owned nothing and depended on the owners of the means of production. after Marx prediction they would violently overthrow the bourgeoisie. after their victory they would form a dictatorship to organize the means of production.

Detailed explanation-4: -Marx theorized about the bourgeoisie, a group that represented members of society who hold the majority of the wealth and means. The proletariat is the other group: It includes those considered working-class or poor.

Detailed explanation-5: -In relation to property there are three great classes of society: the bourgeoisie (who own the means of production such as machinery and factory buildings, and whose source of income is profit), landowners (whose income is rent), and the proletariat (who own their labor and sell it for a wage).