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US
/ˌpɹoʊɫəˈtɛɹiən/
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[ UK /pɹəʊltˈeəɹiən/ ]
[ UK /pɹəʊltˈeəɹiən/ ]
NOUN
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a member of the working class (not necessarily employed)
workers of the world--unite!
ADJECTIVE
- belonging to or characteristic of the proletariat
How To Use proletarian In A Sentence
- Eustache always retains a trace of dandyism, whereas Pialat is fundamentally a proletarian.
- Fascism attempts to organize the newly created proletarian masses without affecting the property structure which the masses strive to eliminate.
- No greater contrast is possible than to go from a city under the sway of a proletarian dictatorship to a royal city where a king sits in ermine on an ancient throne. Six Red Months in Russia: An Observer's Account of Russia Before and During the Proletarian Dictatorship
- The sit-in was therefore rife with just the sorts of contradictions which communists identified with proletarian womanhood, and women became obvious and crucial actors in its realization.
- In 1923, as he fought for ‘proletarian democracy’ against the triumvirate led by Stalin, he changed his mind again, but by then he was too involved to speak decisively.
- All of this vanished like mist before a strong wind when war broke out and all thoughts of international proletarian solidarity went out of the window.
- In Eastern Europe, most of the new states of 1920 had fallen under Moscow-controlled communist regimes at least formally committed to the concept of proletarian internationalism.
- (Potere Operaio, No. 61, July 16, 1973) Even as late as November 1978, after the kidnapping and killing of Aldo Moro, Negri's own magazine, Rosso (Red), far from condemning the escalating violence of the Red Brigades, wrote: "In claiming as its own all militant actions on the proletarian side, the movement must relaunch the initiative on the terrain of organized counterpower and mass illegality. 'Apocalypse Soon': An Exchange
- As work in the garment industry was rationalized, then parceled out for the lowest possible wage, the large mass of garment workers became not craftsmen but a proletarian labor force.
- He had established a school where he held courses for the proletarian class in such crafts as weaving, embroidery, painting, wood carving.