proletarian

Etymology

From Latin proletarius (“a man whose only wealth is his offspring, or whose sole service to the state is as father”), from proles (“offspring, posterity”).

adj

1. Of or relating to the proletariat.

noun

1. A member of the proletariat.
   While the May 30th Movement is usually perceived by historians as essentially a Communist-instigated urban proletarian movement, in the suburban countryside in Xihua county the antiforeign struggle attracted a sizable number of peasants. Surprisingly, the Xihua boycott in Youth Village (qingnian cun) was organized in the name of a peasant organization, the Central Plain Peasant Association (Zhongyuan nongmin xiehui). 1994, Mobilizing the Masses: Building Revolution in Henan, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 47