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Marxism
According to Marxist thought, the proletariat is the class of workers who lack property and are forced to sell their labor to the bourgeoisie in order to survive, and who comprise the majority of humanity.
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Chapter 1: Introduction
...Marxist theory,” Marxists usually ignore the problem of individual nations—and yet Marx wrote that “the proletariat of each country must first settle matters with its own bourgeoisie.”
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