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Proletariat
Proletariat meaning
The lowest class of society; also, the lower classes of society generally; the masses. | Wage earners collectively; people who own no capital and depend on their labour for survival; the working class, especially when seen as engaged in a class struggle with the bourgeoisie (“the capital-owning class”). | The lowest class of citizens, who had no property and few rights, and were regarded as contributing only their offspring to the state.
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Example sentences (20)
He strongly rejected Marx's concept of the " dictatorship of the proletariat ", a concept that vanguardist socialism including Marxist–Leninism would use to justify one-party rule from above by a party 'representing' the proletariat.
Apparently Slobodian, relying on the Marxist catchphrase “the reserve army of the proletariat,” thinks that the position of those who entered the city worsened, when precisely the opposite is the case.
The self-described “anti-capitalist cafe, shop and radical community space on stolen land” tried to run on a “pay what you can” model to help the proletariat.
But then they should be, since, like electric cars, their non-polluting status conveys a certain environment-saving, anti-proletariat ostracization privilege toward internal combustion vehicle drivers.
They dismissed the idea that the dictatorship of the proletariat could be established in Russia before its establishment in the advanced western nations.
They will rise again, like the proletariat overthrowing their bourgeois oppressors.
Violent J and are heroes of the proletariat, and they deserve respect, not snubs from aging wrestling veterans!
Both were part of the Descamisados, the "shirtless ones": the lumpen proletariat marginalised and derided by Argentina's conquistador aristocracy, but whom the Peróns courted with their left-wing reforms and populism.
It won’t improve education but it will reduce future generations to a ‘happier’ but mindless proletariat.
Marx’s embittered proletariat did not overthrow capitalism in the West.
You’ve got to give it to rats, the unkillable proletariat of the animal world.
Granted, its claims of leading a “dictatorship of the proletariat” drowned out years ago.
The market destroyed the plan; individualism replaced collectivism and solidarity; the hugely expanded workforce of the world looks like a “proletariat”, but no longer thinks or behaves as it once did.
But long before that hour strikes, the Indonesian proletariat will have been faced with the chance of taking power, not once but many times.
In the absence of that awareness, the ordinary proletariat will merely do the biding of the political class, which has demonstrated self-preservation as a major driving force behind the quest for other slots in top echelons of government.
In the space navy… come and join your brother proletariat!
Invest in locals and build national capacity through citizens while insulating proletariat from predatory acts of foreign Bourgeoisie with whom they can hardly compete with.
The basic reason why Spartacus failed in the end was the fact that the slaves did not link up with the proletariat in the towns.
This is an answer to those who seek to distort the idea of Karl Marx when he spoke about the ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’, which in today’s terms, as Luxemburg pointed out, means workers’ democracy.
This “self-criticism” sealed the fate of the PKI as the revolutionary party of the proletariat.