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proletariat
[ proh-li-tair-ee-uht ]
noun
- Usually the proletariat. in Marxist theory, the class made up of workers, especially industrial wage earners, who do not possess capital or property and must sell their labor to those who do in order to survive:
The call of the proletariat is to overthrow the capitalist mode of production and finally abolish the whole class structure.
A dictatorship of the proletariat is the first stage of the revolution.
- Usually the proletariat. the class made up of wage earners, especially unskilled or semiskilled workers who earn their living by manual labor, often dependent on daily or casual employment and typically having low levels of education and disposable income; the working class.
- the lowest or poorest class of people, possessing no property, especially in ancient Rome.
proletariat
/ ˌprəʊlɪˈtɛərɪət /
noun
- all wage-earners collectively
- the lower or working class
- (in Marxist theory) the class of wage-earners, esp industrial workers, in a capitalist society, whose only possession of significant material value is their labour
- (in ancient Rome) the lowest class of citizens, who had no property
proletariat
2- In Marxism, the industrial working class , people without property.
Other Words From
- pro·le·tar·i·an adjective noun
- non·pro·le·tar·i·at noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of proletariat1
Word History and Origins
Origin of proletariat1
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Example Sentences
Under Stalin, and for years after his death in 1953, officially sanctioned artwork emphasized a Socialist Realist glorification of the heroic proletariat.
At the height of the Soviet Union, the proletariat universally understood everything their government said was a work of fiction.
Some “new men” from peasant and artisan backgrounds rose, but many others became part of an impoverished proletariat.
Ultimately, though, what saved the Okies was not proletariat revolution but another world war.
In a post on his blog, Sprouse claims that he has become a member of the proletariat to feed his video game addiction.
While Bolshevism was a dictatorship of the proletariat, Nazism was a dictatorship with a voting consensus behind it.
The fact of compulsory education created a proletariat able and willing to read.
The thirst for culture has produced a great, hungry, intellectual proletariat.
The higher technical education increases that intellectual proletariat which Bismarck saw to be a peril.
At the same time the state was overthrown by a political party, the Bolsheviks, who set up a dictatorship of the proletariat.
Discusses the dictatorship of the proletariat, and its chances for success in the United States.
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