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n. The act or process of making something proletarian.
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In Marxism, proletarianization is the social process whereby people move from being either an employer or self-employed (or rarely unemployed), to being employed as wage labor by an employer. In Marxian theory, proletarianization is often seen as the most important form of downward social mobility.
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When a new social reality is formed, integrating both the development of capital and the proletarianization of the population into a single process, the political form of command must itself be modified and articulated in a manner and on a scale adequate to this process, a global quasistate of the disciplinary regime.
This ineluctable aspect of accumulation precedes the question of the proletarianization of the liberal era.
The progressive proletarianization of the noncapitalist environment is the continual reopening of the processes of primitive accumulation -and thus the capitalization of the noncapitalist environment itself.
Marx described the processes of proletarianization in terms of primitive accumulation, the prior or previous accumulation necessary before capitalist production and reproduction can begin to take place.
In England, Marx explains, proletarianization was accomplished first by the enclosures of the common lands and the clearing of peasants from the estates, and then by the brutal punishment of vagabondage and vagrancy.
Needless to say, this proletarianization of the writer is granted only with parsimony, the more completely to be destroyed afterwards.