Proletariat — The First Man in Rome, Masters of Rome, Colleen McCullough · Aristotree

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Proletariat. 2 connected concepts: Equites (related to), Gaius Marius (related to).

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Proletariat

Community · Gaius Marius

Summary

The proletariat is the socioeconomic class of wage laborers, members of a capitalist society whose most significant economic value is their labour power.

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Recruitment base for reforms
Marius famously recruited the capite censi (the head-count) into the Roman legions, providing them with employment and a path to social mobility through military service.
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social opposite of the equestrian class
While the equites represented the wealthy property-owning elite, the capite censi were the lowest class, defined by their lack of property and exclusion from military service.
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