Is Prouts concept of class based on occupation or economic locus standi?
Prouts concept of class is based on socio-existential mentality. A person who is ruled by the environment is proletarian, while a person who rules the physical environment on the strength of his or her physical capabilities is a warrior. A person who rules the environment on the strength of his or her mental faculties is an intellectual, and a person who rules the environment on the strength of his or her capability to amass and control physical wealth is a capitalist. The collective form of each one of these four socio-existential mentalities form the particular class based on the respective mentality. Class may or may not be inherited. A person may be born by a proletarian father and a warrior mother and be an intellectual who him- or herself begets children who are capitalists, or any other way. Some children inherit their parents class, others dont. There is no rigid social system attached to Prouts system of class, it is based on psycho-sociological realities and is dynamic. A per
