George Orwell wrote in Nineteen Eighty Four that 'If there is hope,
it lies in the proles.' A century earlier Marx was unequivocal: the
future belonged to the proletariat. Today such confidence might
seem misplaced. The proletariat has not yet fulfilled Marx's
expectations, and seems unlikely ever to do so. How could Marx have
entertained the notion that the proletariat would emancipate
humanity from capitalism and from class rule itself? This book,
first published in 1988, attempts an explanation by examining the
sources and development of Marx's concept of the proletariat. It
contends that this was not only a crucial element in Marx's theory
but a significant departure in socialist thought. By examining this
concept in detail the book uncovers a major contradiction in
Marxian thought: although the proletariat is assigned a momentous
task it is chiefly depicted as the class of suffering which is why,
historically, it has preferred security to enterprise.
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