proletariat

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Roman Republic and Empire
Modern use
Classic liberal view
Marxist theory
Proletarian culture
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thumb|The Fourth Estate (painting)|The Fourth Estate (1901) by [[Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo]]

The proletariat (; ) is the social class of wage-earners, those members of a society whose possession of significant economic value is their labour power (their capacity to work). A member of such a class is a proletarian or a ''''. Marxist philosophy regards the proletariat under conditions of capitalism as an exploited class,⁠ deprived of their own means of production and thereby forced to operate industrial means of production held as private property by the bourgeoisie, receiving wages which represent less than the value their labour produced, the remainder appropriated by the bourgeoisie as profits.