Commodus, and Caracalla in popular displays or habits abominated by the elite historians who recorded them. Thus, unlike the Marxist conception of proletarianization discussed above, which speaks of the abasement of the working class by the dominant capitalists, Toynbee's proletarianization happens without planning and sometimes despite the dislike or opposition of the ruling groups, because it involves influence of the proletarians on the dominant rather than the reverse. See also Embourgeoisement thesis Proletariat Surplus labor Workerism Deskilling Further reading Karl Marx, Das Kapital. E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class. Harmondsworth: Penguin. Hal Draper, Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution, Vol. 2: The Politics of Social Classes. References External links Workers under neocapitalism Marxist theory Socio-economic mobility Proletariat