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nouna social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
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- proletarian belonging to or characteristic of the proletariat
- class struggle conflict between social or economic classes (especially between the capitalist and proletariat classes)
- class war conflict between social or economic classes (especially between the capitalist and proletariat classes)
- lumpenproletariat (Marxism) the unorganized lower levels of the proletariat who are not interested in revolutionary advancement
- class warfare conflict between social or economic classes (especially between the capitalist and proletariat classes)
- trotskyism the form of communism advocated by Leon Trotsky; calls for immediate worldwide revolution by the proletariat