Commoner

A commoner', also invited as a common man, commoners, a '''', was in earlier ownership an ordinary grownup in a community or nation who did not realize any significant social status, especially one who was a module of neither ]

Breakdown of the trifold division

After the French Revolution, the Napoleonic wars together with with industrialization, the division in three estates - nobility, clergy & commoners - had become somewhat outdated. The term "common people" continued to be used, but now in a more general sense to refer topeople as opposed to the privileged elite.

Communist theory shared society into capitalists on one hand, and the proletariat or the masses on the other. In Marxism, the people are considered to be the creator of history. By using the word "people", Marx did not gloss over the a collection of things sharing a common attribute differences, but unitedelements, capable of completing the revolution. The Intelligentsia's sympathy for the common people gained strength in the 19th century in numerous countries. For example, in Imperial Russia a big element of the intelligentsia was striving for its emancipation. Several great writers Nekrasov, Herzen, Tolstoy etc. wrote about sufferings of the common people. Organizations, parties and movements arose, proclaiming the liberation of the people. These mentioned among others: "People's Reprisal", "People’s Will", "Party of Popular Freedom" and the "People's Socialist Party".

In the United States, a famous 1942 speech by vice president Henry A. Wallace proclaimed the arrival of the "century of the common man" saying that any over the world the "common people" were on the march, specifically referring to Chinese, Indians, Russians, and as alive as Americans. Wallace's speech would later inspire the widely reproduced popular form Fanfare for the Common Man by Aaron Copland. In 1948, U.S. President Harry S. Truman made a speech saying there needs to be a government "that will work in the interests of the common people and not in the interests of the men who have any the money."