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proletariat::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | labor, labour, working class |
| Type of | socio-economic class, stratum, class, social class |
| Has types | organized labor, labor force, labor pool, lumpenproletariat |
| Derivation | proletarian |
Examples of proletariat
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The regime decreed that art should idealize the dictatorship of the proletariat.
From the independent.co.uk
In 1848, the proletariat was a small minority in all but a handful of countries.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Henry Ford's vision of bringing bourgeoisie to the proletariat hastruly lived on.
From the techcrunch.com
For the proletariat science is a means and instrument for this reconstruction.
From the guardian.co.uk
He foresaw, like Karl Marx, the phenomenon of an alienated industrial proletariat.
From the en.wikipedia.org
A major stance of the SI was to count on the force of a revolutionary proletariat.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Let's see you call it cattle when the proletariat comes knocking on your door.
From the nzherald.co.nz
Polarity was invented by patriarchal imperialists to oppress the proletariat.
From the guardian.co.uk
Even during the dictatorship of the proletariat Lenin allowed capitalist practices.
From the guardian.co.uk
- Labor: a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"
- The proletariat (from Latin proletarius, a citizen of the lowest class) is a term used to identify a lower social class; a member of such a class is proletarian. Originally it was identified as those people who had no wealth other than their sons.
- The Proletariat were a punk band from Fall River, Massachusetts. They were active during the 1980s in the Boston Hardcore scene, despite their recorded output having a decidedly non-hardcore sound; The Proletariat show more strongly the musical influences of bands such as Wire, and Gang of Four ...
- The working class or lower class; The wage earners collectively, excluding salaried workers; In ancient Rome, the lowest class of citizens, who had no property
- French for workers. The original Latin word "proles" means "those who have nothing" See bourgeoisie
- Class of working people without access to producing property; typically manufacturing workers, paid laborers in agricultural economy, or urban poor; in Europe, product of economic changes of 16th and 17th centuries. (p. 528)
- "The proletariat is that class in society which lives entirely from the sale of its labour power and does not draw profit from any kind of capital; whose weal and woe, whose life and death, whose sole existence depends on the demand for labour."
- Wage workers. From the Communist Manifesto: "By proletariat [is meant] the class of modern wage laborers, who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor-power in order to live."
- The working class, as it is referred to in Karl Marx Communist Manifesto. Marx predicts the eventual overtake of the Government by the Proletariat.
