bourgeoisie
In the economic field, capitalism is on the offensive against the proletariat.
Did the French proletariat of that time come out even once in a political demonstration against the existing system?
This metaphor demonstrates the control the bourgeoisie have over the proletariats.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Class & class-consciousness in general
anti-bourgeois
anti-snob
arriviste
bougie
gentrification
gentrify
go/come down in the worldidiom
go/come up in the worldidiom
petit bourgeois
petty bourgeois
pleb
plebby
the bottom of the heapidiom
the gentry
the petite bourgeoisie
the upper crust
underclass
ungenteel
ungentrified
upper class

proletariat | American Dictionary

proletariat
noun[ U ]
us/ˌproʊ·lɪˈteər·i·ət/
world history
the people in a society who do not control production and must work in order to live, or the lowest social and economic group in a society

Examples of proletariat

proletariat
The e neo-reformists questioned the exclusive reliance on the proletariat for the socialist revolution.
It was originally destined for the growing mass of urban proletariat onto which was fobbed this industrial minimum of shallow folklore.
When such reform is focused on a small industrial proletariat, it is furthermore cheap.
In the absence of a revolutionary 'pole of attraction', we risk seeing the best elements of the proletariat sink into pessimism.
Article 5 stated that the proletariat could not achieve the revolution if it did not first form a communist party.
Freedom and relative material well-being have never been granted the proletariat by the bourgeoisie other than as something to be tolerated provisionally.
And, even less appealing, it might have led to the proliferation of a substantial industrial proletariat in their midst.
These were not merely new urban proletariat but also newly dispersed and restless peoples on the forest periphery.
French bourgeois democracy is preparing to assassinate the proletariat.
We may no longer live in a society as clearly divided into proletariat and bourgeoisie, but beyond that, little has changed.
This account left very little space amid the proletariat for three traditional cornerstones of human dignity: understanding, deliberation, and personal choice.
Such an attitude would not have been possible with the approach of the classical bourgeois revolutions, since these summoned the proletariat into the plan.
Counter-factual historical hypotheses could be afforded only if they hypothesized a "missing" proletariat, not a "missing" extraterritorial national minority.
In their minds, the dictatorship of the proletariat was the one and only way for achieving 'genuine commoners' democracy'.
The project is against policies that might lead to the rise of a rural proletariat, for such a situation could bring political instability.
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