The proletariat

The proletariat is that class in society which lives entirely from the sale of its labor and does not draw profit from any kind of capital [...] The Proletariat originated in the industrial revolution, which took place in England in the last half of the last (18th) century, and which has since then been repeated in all the civilized countries of the world.
--- 1914 Bernsteinmarxists.org., "Written 1847".
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Class; Communism;
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