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now here is a question from someone who is a newbie in the critique of political economy.
now, the differentiation between productive and unproductive labor is made by marx in various economic manuscripts. labor is productive in so far as it 'valorizes' capital—in other words produces surplus value and 'adds' to capital.

now the proletariat as a class, are they specifically productive laborers, or are unproductive laborers proletariat as well?

Leftypol, post ITT all the charts about communism and left ideologies you have