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of a society, asserting that the working class physically build bridges, craft furniture, grow food, and nurse children, but do not own land or factories.

A sub-section of the proletariat, the lumpenproletariat (rag-proletariat), are the extremely poor and unemployed, such as day labourers and homeless people. Marx considered them to be devoid of class consciousness.

In Marxist terms

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