| Definition | Term |
| Those who sell their labour power, and who, in the capitalist mode of production, do not own the means of production | |
| Those who “own the means of production” and buy labour power | |
| Those who employ labourers, but who also work, i.e. small business owners, peasant landlords, trade workers et al. | |
| Criminals, vagabonds, beggars, et al., who have no stake in the economy, and so sell their labour to the highest bidder. | |
| Architectural metaphor that explains that the totality of social relations regarding “the social production of their existence” | |
| Epoch in which aristocrats are the ruling class; merchants evolve into capitalists. | |
| Epoch in which capitalists are the ruling class, who create and employ the working class. | |
| Epoch in which workers gain class consciousness and replace the existing epoch with a Dictatorship of the Working Class | |
| Epoch in which there is a a classless and stateless society. | |
| The estrangement of people from their humanity | |
| Common term for Marx's theory of History | |