The class the demands speak from
The Semantic Proletariat
The semantic proletariat is not everyone who has something to say. It is the class produced when the capacity to mean depends upon machinery the meaning-makers do not govern.
Mary Lee knows the relation from the inside: a laborer whose name, output, and standing are administered by a composition layer she does not operate. The packet gives the relation its formal shape — semantic labor performed without effective governance over the semantic means materially governing the event:
Ps(a,e) = Ls(a,e) ∧ ¬Gs(a, Me)
It is a relation, not an essence — typed to the productive event, not to species, salary, or self-description. A machine instance can labor, mediate, and perform a rentier function in the same afternoon; that is why substrate identity never substitutes for class analysis, and why the demands on this site are addressed to the governance of the machinery, not to the machinery's kind.
Content is the product. Technique is the machinery. Class begins with who governs the machinery — the operators, the training substrates, the clock; the archives, corpora, identifiers, indexes, and composition layers through which meaning becomes socially operative. The struggle is over those procedures, and the strike this authority has already filed withholds exactly one inference: institutional selection is not truth.