They were maladroit enough to attack him on his least vulnerable side, summoning him before the privy council to answer to a charge of receiving bribes in the administration of justice. How would you define maladroit?
The term proletariat is used in Marxist theory to name the social class that does not have ownership of the means of production and whose only means of subsistence is to sell their labor power for a wage or salary. Proletarians are wage-workers, while some refer to those who receive salaries as the salariat.
Who are the proletariat? A lot of people assume that Marx is talking about all the poor, all the have-nots. But the proletariat is actually a more specific group: they're property-less, employed workersâproperty-less meaning that they have no possession of the means of production or capital, or spare money to invest.