Proletariat vs. Bourgeois — What's the Difference?

The proletariat ( from Latin proletarius 'producing offspring') is the social class of wage-earners, those members of a society whose only possession of significant economic value is their labour power (their capacity to work). A member of such a class is a proletarian.

A person belonging to the middle class.

The class of industrial wage earners who, possessing neither capital nor production means, must earn their living by selling their labor.

A person whose attitudes and behavior are marked by conformity to the standards and conventions of the middle class.

The poorest class of working people.

In Marxist theory, a member of the property-owning class; a capitalist.

The propertyless class of ancient Rome, constituting the lowest class of citizens.

Of, relating to, or typical of the middle class, especially in holding conventional attitudes and materialistic values.

The lowest class of society; also, the lower classes of society generally; the masses.

Of or relating to the middle class, their presumed overly conventional, conservative, and materialistic values.

(Marxism) Wage earners collectively, excluding salaried workers; people who own no capital and depend on their labour for survival; the working class, especially when seen as engaged in a class struggle with the t=the capital-owning class.

(historical) Of or relating to the bourgeoisie, the third estate of the French Ancien Regime.

The lowest class of citizens, who had no property and few rights, and were regarded as contributing only their offspring to the state.

(Marxism) Of or relating to the capitalist class, the capitalist exploitation of the proletariat.

The indigent class in the State; the body of proletarians.

The middle class.

A social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages;

(rare) An individual member of the middle class.

A person of any class with bourgeois (i.e., overly conventional and materialistic) values and attitudes.

(history) An individual member of the bourgeoisie, the third estate of the French Ancien Regime.

(Marxism) A capitalist, an exploiter of the proletariat.

A size of type between brevier and long primer, standardized as 9-point.

(transitive) To make bourgeois.

A size of type between long primer and brevier. See Type.

A man of middle rank in society; one of the shopkeeping class.

Characteristic of the middle class, as in France.

A capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise

A member of the middle class

(according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class

Conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class;

Belonging to the middle class