The word proles as I used it refers to the lowest working classes as
depicted in Orwell's "1984" They were the only group that Big Brother
& the Repressive State never bothered to supervise.
Orwell's "hero", Winston Smith (the last "man" in the World) used to
slip quietly into anonymity of the Proles Quarters to enjoy Free Love,
which was forbidden by the State, with his girl friend (the last
"woman"?)
The word "proles" is short for the word "proletariat" which was a word
used by the Romans for their slaves. But in "1984" Orwell meant it to
imply the general masses, ie the working class and unemployed.
It's true that Karl Marx adopted the word and made it a slogan for the
Communists, ie "the dictatorship of the proletariat", so it had that
connotation as well.
By the time he wrote "1984" Orwell was a total enemy of Communism
having figured out that they had bastardized the name "Socialism" by
adopting it as their own. There was nothing "socialist" in the Union
of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Just like there was nothing
"democratic" in East Germany after the Communist takeover, which they
named the German Democratic Republic (GDR). And there's nothing
"republic" in the People's Republic of China (PRC). Nor is their
anything "liberating" about Red China's People's Liberation Army
(PLA).
These communist, totalitarian regimes giving themselves free-sounding
names are examples of Orwellian DOUBLESPEAK as in "peace is war,
slavery is freedom, torture is love, lies are truth and starvation is
plenty" etc etc.
Around 1991 or so, the powers-that-be announced that "Communism is
dead" and moved their tyrants into position of trust and friendship
with the Capitalist tyrants of the world, thus fulfilling Orwell's
prophesy of "oligarchical collectivism".
These days we're becoming "the proles" in all senses of the word and
don't seem to be fulfilling Orwell's hope, ie "If there was hope, it
lay in the proles, because only there could the force to destroy the
Party ever be generated...If only they could somehow become conscious
of their own strength".
Mephi.....well, you did ask.
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