Proletariat

PROLETARIAT

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Who Are They? (1)
 * Proletariat is the lowest or one of the lowest economic and social classes in a society.
 * In Marxist Theory they are referred as the 'Working Class' whose source of income is the sale of their labor power. The term is referred to all who must work for their living including agricultural laborers, white-collar workers, and hired help occupied in the distribution services.

After The Revolution (4) Ideology (3)
 * Proletariat was the bottom of the society in Soviet Russia.
 * After the peasants were brought to cities to work in factories they were disputed and stepped on, blamed for many things including epidemics. They were inexperienced and they were creating competition for jobs and housing and even though they overcome their differences by the early 1920s, it was a rough patch for them.
 * Originally Dictatorship of the Proletariat was designed as the dictatorship by the majority class. However the Bolshevik Revolution resulted in a dictatorship of a political party that claimed to represent proletarian interests and eventually became the dictatorship of the former proletarians.

Pyramid of Capitalist System
 * The bottom is the Proletariat, they are carrying all the weight of other social classes on their shoulders. They are the biggest of all classes and they "Work for All" and "Feed All" as it says in the picture (5).

Boxer Like the Pyramid of Capitalist System represents, he carries all the weight by himself. He is not very bright, all he has is his power of labor. He just accepts what he is told instead of thinking for himself. He's rather follow Napoleon blindly than to have his own opinion just because he is a fellow animal.
 * In the book 'Animal Farm' Boxer represents the proletariat.
 * He works more than anyone else on the farm, all he has is his power of labor, he is not very smart, wakes up an hour earlier, and spends some of his free time working. He practically builds the entire windmill by himself before it's blown up and his motto is "I'll work harder."
 * He also follows Napoleon blindly just because he is another animal, like the proletariat followed Stalin because he is a communist. Even though from time to time something doesn't feel right he always concludes that feeling with "Napoleon is always right."
 * "There were days when the entire work of the farm seemed to rest on his mighty shoulders" (pp 20)
 * "He would stand staring at the letters with his ears back, sometimes shaking his forelock, trying with all his might to remember what came next and never succeeding" (pp 23)
 * "Boxer, who had now had time to think things over, voiced the general feeling by saying: 'If comrade Napoleon says it, it must be right.' And from then on he adopted the maxim 'Napoleon is always right' in addition to his private motto of 'I will work harder'." (pp 40)

Reference List
 * 1) Proletariat (social class) from Encyclopædia Britannica []#
 * 2) Industrial Worker Magazine (1911) []
 * 3) Dictatorship of the Proletariat from Encyclopædia Britannica []
 * 4) Ohr
 * 5) Mr. Schrobb
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