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In his first book, ''The Condition of the Working Class in England'',<ref>https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/condition-working-class/</ref> Engels argues that the proletarianisation began in the second half of the 18th-century as a result of the introduction of industrial capital which put the traditional cottage cotton workshops and yeomen out of business. As a result, the new proletarians migrated into towns in search for manufacturing jobs. | In his first book, ''The Condition of the Working Class in England'',<ref>https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/condition-working-class/</ref> Engels argues that the proletarianisation began in the second half of the 18th-century as a result of the introduction of industrial capital which put the traditional cottage cotton workshops and yeomen out of business. As a result, the new proletarians migrated into towns in search for manufacturing jobs. | ||
The proletariat is in a dialectic with private property, as Marx outlines in Chapter 4 of ''The Holy Family'' | The proletariat is in a dialectic with private property, as Marx outlines in Chapter 4 of ''The Holy Family:''<ref>https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/holy-family/ch04.htm</ref> | ||
<blockquote> ''"Proletariat and wealth are opposites; as such they form a single whole. They are both creations of the world of private property. The question is exactly what place each occupies in the antithesis. It is not sufficient to declare them two sides of a single whole."'' </blockquote> | <blockquote> ''"Proletariat and wealth are opposites; as such they form a single whole. They are both creations of the world of private property. The question is exactly what place each occupies in the antithesis. It is not sufficient to declare them two sides of a single whole."'' </blockquote> | ||