PROLETARIAT

 the proletariat, ‘alone is a really revolutionary class’.31 It is to capitalism as the bourgeoisie was to feudalism: The weapons with which the bourgeoisie felled feudalism to the ground are now turned against the bourgeoisie itself. But not only has the bourgeoisie forged the weapons that bring death to itself; it has also called into existence the men who are to wield those weapons – the modern working class – the proletarians.32