If you're interested in this issue, you might like the book Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work. They talk about the rise and hegemony

If you're interested in this issue, you might like the book Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work. They talk about the rise and hegemony of neoliberalism- how it makes it seem capitalism is and always was the way societies should work. They also mention the proletariat. I'm reading the book now and don't have a good grasp on all its complex ideas but one big idea was that capitalism works by displacing peasants. At least peasants were self-sustainable. But in countries that are industrializing, you start taking away the land, and the means to be self-sustainable.