What is proletariat in todays Russia?
There exist two points of view on this problem. The first one may be labelled inclusive; in this case it comprises practically all of the workforce. This approach prevails among the communist movement leaders in Russia. The very terms ‘proletariat’ and ‘working class’ are often substituted by the notion ‘the working people’ or just ‘the people’ which includes the peasants, the intelligentsia, the employees, the military, the administration workers and other population groups. The supporters of their approach justify it by two arguments. First, all these population strata get salary or wages and bear the hardships of the capitalism restoration. Second, given the latest development of the state-of-the-art technologies, the number of the ‘traditional proletariat’ is decreasing in many countries. In our opinion, those who defend this point of view support In fact opportunist theories. In reality, the dissolution of the working class in semi-proletarian or non-proletarian elements, and that
