the proletariat
noun [singular + singular or plural verb] (specialist)(used especially when talking about the past 尤用以指过去 the class of ordinary people who earn money by working, especially those who do not own any property 无产阶级；工人阶级；普罗阶级 the industrial proletariat 工业无产阶级 Marx wrote of the class struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. 马克思描写了资产阶级和无产阶级之间的阶级斗争。
Word Originmid 19th cent.: from French prolétariat, from Latin proletarius (from proles ‘offspring’), denoting a person having no wealth in property, who only served the state by producing offspring.