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PROLETARIAT, or PROLETARIATE

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 434 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PROLETARIAT, or PROLETARIATE , a See also:term borrowed from the See also:French and used collectively of those classes of a See also:political community who depend for their livelihood on their daily labour, the wage-earning, operative class as opposed to the See also:capital-owning class. It is of frequent use by those social reformers who See also:base their theories on the supposed antagonism of capital and labour. The Latin proletarius, from which the word was formed, was the name given to the See also:body of citizens possessed of no See also:property and who therefore served the See also:state with their See also:children (proles, offspring). This See also:division of the members of the state was traditionally ascribed to Servius Tullius.

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