[dread78645]

the great class of the-what did the commies call it, the proletariat or some such?

Uhmm, you have it jumbled up.

The proletariat is the non-propertied class that lives by selling their labor.
The bourgeoisie is the class with property living on trade.

The truly idle classes in Marx-Leninist theory are the capitalist (propertied and living on interest income of wealth) and the priesthood who lived on the donations of others.

[Tin-Legions]

Thanks, I was just guessing, it has been years since I even did a idle study of such things.