| Many flocked to Rome, where they joined the proletariat of propertyless citizens dependent on handouts of free wheat by the state. |
| If they are to be effective they will have to include the poor and powerless, and especially the propertyless working classes. |
| In the course of time the propertied members made common cause against the propertyless ones. |
| For the first time in history, a propertyless, oppressed class took and held power, proving in practice that the proletariat can indeed rule. |
| Apologies, stale jokes, and sneers at the propertyless workers followed one another in close succession. |
| But imprisonment for debt was not the only fate that befell the propertyless. |
