Marx defined the proletariat as the social class having no significant ownership of the means of production (factories, machines, land, mines, buildings, vehicles) and whose only means of subsistence is to sell their labor power for a wage or salary.

Who is considered the proletariat?

Marxist definition: the proletariat

Karl Marx defined the working class or proletariat as individuals who sell their labour power for wages and who do not own the means of production. He argued that they were responsible for creating the wealth of a society.

What is the meaning of proletariat class?

1 : the laboring class especially : the class of industrial workers who lack their own means of production and hence sell their labor to live.