Defining the Proletatriat
Marx “calling into being” the class of the proles. The process of their organization organically produces the communist party as a political power.
The proletariat goes through various stages of development. With its birth begins its struggle with the bourgeoisie
- Disorganized proles Organized by BZ [=companies, etc.]
At this stage, the labourers still form an incoherent mass scattered over the whole country, and broken up by their mutual competition
- Organized Unions Separate, permanent unions to fight for wage
Now and then the workers are victorious, but only for a time. The real fruit of their battles lies, not in the immediate result, but in the ever expanding union of the workers.
- Nationally organized communist community
It was just this contact that was needed to centralise the numerous local struggles, all of the same character, into one national struggle between classes.
- Ultimately the formation of the communist party
This organisation of the proletarians into a class, and, consequently into a political party
It is unfortunately for the bz that the proles—the class whose founding was caused by capital—will eventually be the ones to destroy them:
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.
What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.