How To Use Proletariat In A Sentence

In the end, though, Smith was beginning to realise the futility of trying to liberate a proletariat that seemed quite content to remain unliberated.
Not lords nor proletariats nor bishops nor husbands nor co-respondents nor virgins nor adultresses nor uncles nor noses. Touch and Go
The main axis of stratification in capitalist societies is the struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies
The proletariat is also quite good at convincing each other that communism is a good idea. Animal Farm Character Profiles
By mid-century, the Marxist sociologist C. Wright Mills could write persuasively…of American office and store workers as a new proletariat, no less regimented, poorly paid, and declassed than manual workers of the previous century.

In addition, the rural population is sometimes seen as a specific class in Marx's historical writings, as is the Lumpenproletariat (“dregs of society”), so that we obtain an image of society, which, far from the usual dichotomic or trichotomic image, is differentiated into several strata with multiple interests. CLASS
Later, the importance of the proletariat is shown when Boxer suddenly falls and there is suddenly a drastic decrease in work productivity. Animal Farm Character Profiles
So even as they mutter racist slogans, members of Siberia's Lumpenproletariat benefit from proximity to the dragon.
Lenin proposed that the new regime would be a ‘democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry.’
All culture is inevitably affiliated to one of two fundamental classes: bourgeoisie or proletariat.
Given the Marxian reduction of everything to class interests, it is obvious that a petit bourgeois arriviste such as Ms. Rodham-Clinton can neither command the allegiance of the proletariat nor enjoy the trust of the capitalists.
Remember, he's the voice of the lumpenproletariat, the great unwashed, the rough part of Los Angeles (assuming it has any smooth parts).
Lenin roused the proletariat, and Mao marched the Long March toward peace, prosperity, and improvement … and one thing that they all had in common was the desire to take from one group to give to another in the name of a more perfect society. The Golden Age… and Camelot « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website
The elite have the skills to make sure their problems are first on the consultant's list; the lumpenproletariat do not.
She grew up as a member of this oppressed proletariat that Marx and Engels wrote about.
Besides an embittered intelligentsia, anti-Chechen barriers in higher education and industry, along with the high birth rate, generated a large “subproletariat” of underemployed, rural young men, dependent on migratory work. The Return
It seemed to Peter that every time he fell asleep it was to the music of proletariat and surplus value and unearned increment, possibilism and impossibilism, political action, direct action, mass action, and the perpetual circle of Syndicalist-Anarchist, Anarchist-Communist, 100\%: the Story of a Patriot
Others are the kind of lumpen proletariat that autocracies scoop up in a last-ditch effort to survive: convicted violent criminals, poorly educated young unemployed men, and no small number of sadists, sycophants, and psychopaths. Larry Diamond: Mubarak Must Go
This proletariat interests neither the opposition forces nor the regimes based on the sacred.
They have had to seek work as labourers on the farms of the wealthy and become, so to speak, a rural proletariat. Science, Technology, and Social Change
Within a year or so of the Revolution, he adopted - with typical enthusiasm - the principle that in crisis the Party must substitute for the proletariat.
The dictatorship of the proletariat became in practice personal power wielded by an autocratic leader. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
The main axis of stratification in capitalist societies is the struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies
Marx wrote of the class struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat.
Kelley criticizes scholars who, in attempting to counter racist stereotypes, “are often too quick to invert them, remaking the black proletariat into the hardest-working, thriftiest, most efficient labor force around.” A Renegade History of the United States
It was Gandhi's first experience with India's industrial proletariat.
The so called socialist/communist system people deam about, is UTOPIC, and so utopic that it ends up in a dictature of proletariat: I have been there, I witnesses it, and i know what i am saying! Think Progress » Beck loses 103 sponsors as his UK television broadcast runs for five days straight without any ads.
The consistently revolutionary wing of Social Democracy, the Bolsheviks, became the authentic vanguard of the proletariat.
They wanted to establish their own dictatorship of the proletariat. The Times Literary Supplement
Is it necessary for the peasant classes of agricultural nations to become urban or rural (if such a thing is possible) proletariats before a Socialist Revolution is possible?
In vain the Communists tried to burnish their image, formally abandoning the doctrine of the dictatorship of the proletariat at their twenty-second party congress in February 1976.
It seemed to Peter that every time he fell asleep it was to the music of proletariat and surplus value and unearned increment, possibilism and impossibilism, political action, direct action, mass action, and the perpetual circle of Syndicalist-Anarchist, Anarchist-Communist, Communist-Socialist and Socialist-Syndicalist. 100% : The Story of a Patriot
The multigeneration denizens of public housing can readily be compared to Karl Marx's lumpenproletariat.
Middle class people can claim neither the heroic struggles of the proletariat nor the cultural hauteur and effortless savoir faire of the aristocracy.
One of the most pernicious evils of contemporary BritKapital is to have lured the proletariat into limiting their potential to the pursuit of lumpen hedonism.
In Russia, where the proletariat is armed, the proletariat becomes the only real influential body. Six Red Months in Russia: An Observer's Account of Russia Before and During the Proletarian Dictatorship
Marx believed that the working class should seize the apparatus of the State and establish the dictatorship of the proletariat.
New merchant and professional classes arose and a proletariat developed out of the peasantry.
This stratum puzzles the traditional left, since it is plainly not being absorbed by any spontaneous historic process into a classical "proletariat": it is not organizable by the familiar methods of, e.g., labor unions or held together by some ideology of class consciousness like Marxism. A Special Supplement: Chile: Year One
David Cameron even spent a knackering night deferring to the proletariat, telling workers at Morrisons that they worked all night so he thought he should too (yes, Dave, but they don't work in the day as well) and handling halibut at Grimsby fish market, which had the unfortunate effect of highlighting the resemblance between the fish's thin lips, and cold, dead eyes, and his own. Christina Patterson: Thanks to the politicians, we're all 'hard-working' now
Every crop failure flings masses of the middle peasants into the ranks of the proletariat.
Moreover, when the taxed-out or squeezed-out peasant moved to the insalubrious factory barracks, he became part of an ill-paid, unhealthy, unskilled, and uneducated proletariat which was a social problem in itself.
The cubicled floor space of start-ups turned agglomerates make up the Binary Proletariat.
Even though the real wages and living standards of the proletariat may rise, its members will become poorer in relation to the bourgeoisie.
A new period begins amid circumstances much more discouraging for the economic struggle of the proletariat.
The revolutionary literature that accompanied these first movements of the proletariat had necessarily a reactionary character.
Socialism, which require, on one hand, that we lay the foundation for the Socialist organization of emulation, and, on the other hand, _require the use of compulsion so that the slogan of the dictatorship of the proletariat should not be weakened by the practice of a too mild proletarian government_. Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy
History was moving ‘in a certain way’ and the class struggle would continue in the Third World with the lumpenproletariat of the colonized peoples taking up arms against the colonists.
Whereas in the heyday of the proletariat there was a bunching of semi-skilled workers in the centre, marginalizing skilled artisans and unskilled casual workers, now a line divided the working class through the middle.
His treatment of Marxism is disgraceful, exhibiting little understanding, and he makes the scurrilous charge that Marxists are hostile to indigenous peoples because they are the modern day lumpenproletariat.
In Launceston thousands of card-carrying union members hailed Comrade John as a hero of the proletariat while in Sydney the heir to Australia's biggest business fortune declared his support for the Prime Minister.
Our closest friends are the entire semi-proletariat and petty bourgeoisie.
Political art consisted in fusing the petty bourgeoisie into oneness through its common hostility to the proletariat.
The so called socialist/communist system people deam about, is UTOPIC, and so utopic that it ends up in a dictature of proletariat: I have been there, I witnesses it, and i know what i am saying! Think Progress » Beck loses 103 sponsors as his UK television broadcast runs for five days straight without any ads.
At a time of dissolving borders and distances the nation as a whole, with 92 million inhabitants, an impressive system of electronic communications, and a whole new subproletariat in shantytowns trying to fight its way into the middle class, is due for another decades-long round of roiling, combustible history. History Moving North
In any event, the capitalists figured out a way to sate the proletariat, and the great metamorphoses from a society of wage slaves into a workers’ paradise never happened, unless you consider two cars and a TV set in every room a workers’ paradise. Government blues
The consistently revolutionary wing of Social Democracy, the Bolsheviks, became the authentic vanguard of the proletariat.
Many layers of management, most of it very highly paid, has inserted itself in the gap between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. Times, Sunday Times
They occupy a contradictory class location between the petty bourgeoisie and the proletariat. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies
Socialists, with some exceptions, have tended to believe that the proletariat should be kept in a state of hard-working asexual purity.
To flesh out further this last rather willfully provocative statement, we must return to the reaction elicited by the proletariat's principal surrogates in Saint Symphorien - the two foreground lictors.
The propertied class and the class of the proletariat represent the same human self-alienation.
Many layers of management, most of it very highly paid, has inserted itself in the gap between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. Times, Sunday Times
His idea was to take the city to the village, so a working class, a proletariat, began to be born in the villages.
Managers and supervisors occupy a contradictory class location between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies
The class enemy, the bourgeoisie and its allies, wielded a vast array of ideological weapons designed to mislead the proletariat.
We Marxists consider the tactic of individual terror inexpedient in the tasks of the liberating struggle of the proletariat as well as oppressed nationalities.
The dominance of industrial capitalism nurtured an urban proletariat, in large measure drawn from the mass immigration from southern and eastern Europe.
Our CC makes it crystal-clear to CPNM and the people at large that there can be no genuine democracy in any country without the capture of state power by the proletariat and that the so-called multiparty democracy cannot bring any basic change in the lives of the people. Latest Press release of Com Azad spokesperson of CPI Maoist on Nepal Developments
The consistently revolutionary wing of Social Democracy, the Bolsheviks, became the authentic vanguard of the proletariat.
It seemed to Peter that every time he fell asleep it was to the music of proletariat and surplus value and unearned increment, possibilism and impossibilism, political action, direct action, mass action, and the perpetual circle of Syndicalist-Anarchist, Anarchist-Communist, Communist-Socialist and Socialist-Syndicalist. 100% : The Story of a Patriot
The proletariat must possess the truth of Marxism.
The Chinese proletariat has natural ties with the peasant masses.
In capitalist society, the main axis of conflict is between the bourgeoisie (the capitalist) and proletariat (the workers).
The most significant aspect of the Russian Revolution was the dominant political role played by the proletariat in the struggle against tsarism.
The dictatorship of the proletariat was key to Marx.
All culture is inevitably affiliated to one of two fundamental classes: bourgeoisie or proletariat.
There is no mob of the proletariat here to rip you apart.
The industrial proletariat was the first to rally around it.
Firstly, it has meant that, “[l] andless countrymen, whose ancestors were serfs, are the parents of the proletariate of great towns” (LPPO 229). Thomas Hill Green
Marx himself distinguishes between the proletariat - what most people today think of as the working class - and what he calls the petit-bourgeoisie - including the peasantry, artisans, and various entepreneurs. Internet Anarchist Revision Brigade: how Burt Green tried to write about statist anti-imperialism and blocked his sink with tea leaves
Whereas in the heyday of the proletariat there was a bunching of semi-skilled workers in the centre, marginalizing skilled artisans and unskilled casual workers, now a line divided the working class through the middle.
Our strength, the strength of the proletariat, is in our muscles, in our hands to cast ballots, in our fingers to pull triggers. Chapter 9: The Mathematics of a Dream
They occupy a contradictory class location between the petty bourgeoisie and the proletariat. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies
The catastrophe into which the world has thrust the socialist proletariat is an unexampled misfortune for humanity.
By 'proletariat' is meant the class of people without capital which sells its labor for a living. THE CLASS STRUGGLE
In the period of the dictatorship of the proletariat, the regulation of relationships enters a new phase. Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1715
Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other -- bourgeoisie and proletariat. Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1715
The proletariat is now an important trope of modernity worthy of the writerly gaze.
Trotsky writes that Nietzsche's philosophy has a particular appeal to what he describes as a parasitic proletariat, a social layer arising within capitalism which is more privileged than the mere lumpenproletariat.
The conventional view now is of an uneducated, largely illiterate proletariat sitting in moronic torpor until the beginnings of state education.
The dictatorship of the proletariat became in practice personal power wielded by an autocratic leader. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
The working class, or proletariat, is not defined by the type of labour it performs, but by its relationship to the means of production.
For some workers and lumpenproletariat, it is a revolt against greedy capitalists.
That is to say, the revolutionary hymn that called the proletariats of the world to unite is now anti-revolutionary in the harmonious society.
If Britain is broken, it's broken at the edges, the areas inhabited by what the left used to call the lumpen proletariat. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Said a commenter on a political blog - who simply went by the name KP - on the opposition party's defeat in Hula Selangor: 'I feel Pakatan has been overemphasising its support from the business and sub-urban/urban sections that they overlooked the fact that the proletariat and rural sections remain the majority in this country.' Global Issues News Headlines
During the wretched interwar years, Europeans — and Americans as well — had tended to regard refugees either as well-to-do speculators living high on the hog from illegal gain or as a subproletariat ready to snatch jobs from native workers. Who Saved Jews? An Exchange
Nevertheless it is perfectly safe to say that in the larger towns, where the higher-priced drama coexists with the motion-picture plays, the line of cleavage is sharply drawn in the character of the audience, and this line is the same line which marks the proletariat from the bourgeoisieand capitalist class. Class-Consciousness and the 'Movies'
That weasel phrase 'hard-working people' - you mean the lumpenproletariat, the rabble, don't you? Times, Sunday Times
By implication, class conflict is primarily a struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. The Sociology of Modernization and Development
I've long contended that scrapbooking is the lumpenproletariat reaction to the media trend of excavating celebrities 'personal lives. Scrapbooking = creepy
The causes are something a historian can study and document: the colonial period where long-standing social orders were overturned to serve colonial interests, and not-so-deep-seated animosities between the two main ethnic groups were exacerbated; the hatred of Tutsis that Hutu regimes inculcated even deeper into peasants for years so that most of these poor people at one point actually began to believe Tutsis were devil-like beings with tails and that killing them was their duty; teaming masses of impoverished urban Hutus (of the kind a Marxist would call the lumpen proletariat) murdering their Tutsi neighbors so they would cart off their property and rape their women (just like peasants murdering their neighbor to take his piece of land), and so endlessly on. AllAfrica News: Latest
It has created a new capitalist class, a burgeoning middle class, and an urban proletariat that lives relatively better in sweatshop conditions than in rural destitution. Robert Kuttner: Trade War Is Here -- and We've Disarmed
The revolution of the proletariat has been replaced by that of the precariat, those in dodgy unstable work. Times, Sunday Times
For decades a foreign proletariat toiling in dingy factories from Vladivostok to Karl-Marx-Stadt helped bankroll Pyongyang's transformation into a proud monument to ethnic self-reliance, so that someday a Bruce Cumings could boast that it is anything but the ugly Communist capital one might expect. Mother of All Mothers
I have explanations for my contradictions love of hip-hop vs. implicit associations/metalinguistics, identification with the Marxist proletariat vs. obscene collection of Nikes. Tgirsch's Theory of Music Appreciation « Lean Left
Managers and supervisors occupy a contradictory class location between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies
Yet I have never seen a community so competitive, so full of snobbery and flunkeyism, a ruling class so selfish and so class-conscious, or a proletariat so fawning, so lacking in all solidarity and sense of corporate honour. Surprised by Joy
The supremacy of the proletariat will cause them to vanish still faster.
The peasantry is the firm ally of the proletariat.
The consistently revolutionary wing of Social Democracy, the Bolsheviks, became the authentic vanguard of the proletariat.
The old story held that industry pulled recently dispossessed rural people to the city, where - along with deskilled artisans - they became part of a growing urban industrial proletariat.
They could not see behind them a miserable peasantry breeding itself down to the basest subsistence; a miserable urban proletariat deteriorating physically and morally; they could not estimate the mutterings of revolt in all their sweated and driven industrial centres; they could not understand the protests of their own fine and growing intelligentzia. The Shape of Things to Come
This hope was not realized, as we know, and the break-up of the government came within a month, when the Bolsheviki at last accomplished their long-planned armed uprising, and by force established what they called the dictatorship of the proletariat. The Russian Revolution; the Jugo-Slav Movement
They will never even dare raise the question of thuggery with us, as we work with the lumpenproletariat closely; in fact they are somewhat concerned for their own well-being.
party of the propertyless proletariat
Taking a page out of the tactics of Anglo-American imperialism in Italy, the Stalinist bureaucracy leaves the insurgent proletariat to be crushed by the retreating Nazis.
Human history has remained the chronology of struggles between master and servant, have and have nots, between capitalists and proletariats, exploiter and exploited.
As learned and experienced bargainers, thanks to months on the road, we calmly explained that we were students (and proletariats ourselves) and simply could not afford the 1000 rupees, which was true.
The staunch ally of the proletariat is the peasantry, and next comes the urban petty bourgeoisie.
Or would the overthrow of tsarism, the establishment of a democratic republic and the beginning of the transition to socialism proceed on the basis of the growth of Russian capitalism and the emergence of a modern industrial proletariat?
He can't have his dictatorship of the proletariat while his daughters and wife live as pasha divas. Lynch takes steps to run for Kennedy seat
Chou En-lai is not only a great proletariat revolutionist, politician, militarist, diplomat, but also an outstanding Marxist theorist.
The bloody woman can't tell the lumpenproletariat from the skilled working class.
He was Marx-ian propagandist and polemist-in-chief, but not a revolutionary politician of the proletariat. My Life
The main axis of stratification in capitalist societies is the struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies
Yet he also presciently warned against Karl Marx's aspiration for a "dictatorship of the proletariat, " writing in 1868 that "socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.
The lumpenproletariat has always existed and I suspect that it always will in one form or another.
Only a small elite could understand and mastermind the seizure of power by the proletariat. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
It was weakest in the great latifundia lands of Extremadura, La Mancha and Andalucia, where a rural proletariat lived in desperate economic circumstances. A Social History of Modern Spain
The communism of conspiracy, the Blanquism of that time, carries us up through Buonarotti and also through Bazard and the "Carbonari" to the conspiracy of Baboeuf, a true heir of ancient tragedy who hurled himself against fate because there was no connection between his aim and the economic condition of the moment, and he was as yet incapable of bringing upon the political scene a proletariat having a broad class consciousness. Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History
Since the end of the draft the US military has become a haven for confused and alienated individuals, many of whom were on the verge of being pushed into the lumpenproletariat.
This wallows in the dirt, squalor, drunkenness and mechanical, dehumanised sexuality of those who live on the margins of society, where the artistic petty bourgeois merges with the lumpenproletariat.
The description of the ‘new’ working class dance halls in this passage emphasizes the rising importance of the proletariat for the city's physiognomy.
These American farmers were not, then, in the classic Marxist formulation, expropriating the surplus value of a proletariat.
And so the dictatorship of the proletariat becomes the _dictatorship of a single person_, a super-boss and industrial autocrat: We must learn to combine the stormy, energetic breaking of all restraint on the part of the toiling masses _with iron discipline during work, with absolute submission to the will of one person, the Soviet director, during work_. [ Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy
It seemed to Peter that every time he fell asleep it was to the music of proletariat and surplus value and unearned increment, possibilism and impossibilism, political action, direct action, mass action, and the perpetual circle of Syndicalist-Anarchist, Anarchist-Communist, 100\%: the Story of a Patriot
This "précariat" is a new sort of subproletariat that not only has "nothing to sell but its labor power" but that often has little prospect of even being able to sell that; a vast underclass trapped in a limbo of temporary minimum-wage jobs, temporary unemployment benefits, panhandling or prostitution or petty crime when the benefits run out, and from there to incarceration in the rapidly expanding prison-industrial complex, where the system provides its "final solution" to the unemployment problem: a revival of slave labor. Reflections on the Uprising in France; Lessons Learned
The organization of the party is the model for the organization of the "dictatorship of the proletariat ". Politics, Planning and the State
It's a better idea for the wealthy to provide a safety net for the lumpenproletariat than to be the first up against the wall when the revolution comes.
The old labor competition would cease; there would be no more handicraftsmen or home-workers to force into the proletariat.
It is, in fact, a larger and more diverse section of the population than the old industrial proletariat of the middle of the last century.
To the proletariat the imperial suffrage has been a mighty weapon in its battle for emancipation.
Our social welfare R50 Billion budget per annum should address the basic needs of people and it should seek to address the problem of poverty, stemming from children, pensioners, people with HIV - AIDS, people with disabilities and the highly unemployable, what we term the lumpen proletariat. SPEECH BY OUPA MONARENG THE ROLE OF PARLIAMENT IN EXECUTING THE PEOPLES CONTRACT - STATE OF THE NATION DEBATE
Having come into power the proletariat only asserts the absolute impossibility of applying the methods of bourgeois democracy, and it creates the conditions and forms of a higher _working class democracy_ .... The Red Conspiracy
Yes I do like the humour of throwing the word proletariat at Labour MP's who have sold out and whored away all the last vestiges of socialism. Gordonomics - Life on the streets in Gordon Browns "Cool Britannia"
Civilizing the proletariat became part of the self - protective program of the bourgeoisie.
Revolutionaries should possess the noble qualities of the proletariat.
All culture is inevitably affiliated to one of two fundamental classes: bourgeoisie or proletariat.
'Prole' is etymologically derived from 'proletariat'.
Maybe this wealth is not falling entirely into the hands of the proletariat, but more of it is than with any other historically existent system.
The class enemy, the bourgeoisie and its allies, wielded a vast array of ideological weapons designed to mislead the proletariat.
I want to know more about why the working class or the proletariat is the decisive factor in this fight.
To preserve the system, Lenin argued, concessions had to be granted to the proletariat at home.
Today, strawberries are grown in all 50 states and enjoyed by people in all walks of life - presidents and proletariats alike.
By implication, class conflict is primarily a struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. The Sociology of Modernization and Development
What relevance, then, could Marxism, a movement of the urban proletariat, have for the political development of Russia?
This is remarkable, since this was the time of the lumpenproletariat, that great urban mass of unskilled labourers who comprised about 40 per cent of the population of the new industrial cities.
The existence of palm leaf libraries lends credence to the proletariat nature of ancient Oriya literature.
When the rural peasants began to form a sizable lumpenproletariat in the city they were sent back home - the slum clearances in Algiers 1984.
Marx has left us a vivid rhetorical picture of the proletariat as objectified labour, demeaned and dehumanized by the brutal forces of capitalism.
For decades a foreign proletariat toiling in dingy factories from Vladivostok to Karl-Marx-Stadt helped bankroll Pyongyang's transformation into a proud monument to ethnic self-reliance, so that someday a Bruce Cumings could boast that it is anything but the ugly Communist capital one might expect. Mother of All Mothers
Clearly I have major “competition”: the entire German-Jewish intellectual proletariat is assembled here. Balkinization
Managers and supervisors occupy a contradictory class location between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies

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