They were maladroit enough to attack him on his least vulnerable side, summoning him before the privy council to answer to a charge of receiving bribes in the administration of justice. How would you define maladroit?
The term proletariat is used in Marxist theory to name the social class that does not have ownership of the means of production and whose only means of subsistence is to sell their labor power for a wage or salary. Proletarians are wage-workers, while some refer to those who receive salaries as the salariat.
According to Marx and Engels, the productive forces were always outpacing and causing a strain on the forms of intercourse, creating the possibility for development. Second, Marx and Engels offer the concepts of the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, the classes that confront each other at the end of history. The bourgeoisie, for Marx and Engels, own the âmeans of production,â the tools, resources, technology that go into and products that come out of the productive process.