Proletariat
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Illustration:Liberty Leading the People (1831, detail) by Eugène Delacroix.
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The proletariat (from Latin proles, offspring) is a term used to identify a lower social class; a member of such a class is proletarian. Originally it was identified as those people who had no wealth other than their sons; the term was initially used in a derogatory sense, until Karl Marx used it as a sociological term to refer to the working class.
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See also
- Bourgeoisie
- Blue collar
- Folk culture
- Laborer
- Lower class
- Lumpenproletariat
- Peasantry
- Precariat
- Prole drift
- Prolefeed
- Proles
- Proletarianization
- Proletarian internationalism
- Slavery
- Social Class
- Social class in ancient Rome
- Working class
- Wage slavery
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