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.
The proletariat, on the other hand, only own their ability to labor (their âlabor-powerâ) and their personal property, which amounts to little. The proletariat sells its labor-power for wages, and the bourgeoisie uses this labor-power to increase its holdings.