 describes the proletariat as that class of society which lives exclusively by its labor, not on the profit of any kind of capital, and whose weal and woe and life and death therefore depend on the fluctuations of competition. And once you think of it in those terms, you see that when people say, oh, well, you know, these days a barista, what does that have to do with a 19th century mine worker? It seems to me fairly uncontroversial that there is