The Emergence Machine

Proletariat

abstract · History · Level 14 · E10

E10Institutions

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Emergence definition

A class characterized by the lack of ownership of productive resources and reliance on wage labor, forming the primary class exploited by capitalist systems in Marxist theory, which relies on the understanding of resource, class, and ownership as interconnected concepts.

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Wiktionary senses

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Historical origin

Origin word
proletarius
Origin language
la

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL14L13L12L11L10L2L1L0ProletariatOwnershipExchangeProductionClassPrincipalResource… intermediate l…ForceFormInformationLandActionChangeCollectionDistributionEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

Direct prerequisites above, concepts that depend on this one below.

thisprerequisitesProletariatL14ClassL10ResourceL10OwnershipL13E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Class L10 (requires) Sociology sense
    The working class characterized by the lack of ownership of productive resources and reliance on wage labor, forming the primary class exploited by capitalist systems in Marxist theory.
  • Resource L10 (requires)
    The working class characterized by the lack of ownership of productive resources and reliance on wage labor, forming the primary class exploited by capitalist systems in Marxist theory.
  • Ownership L13 (requires)
    The working class characterized by the lack of ownership of productive resources and reliance on wage labor, forming the primary class exploited by capitalist systems in Marxist theory.