Proletarian
adjective
Relating to regular working class people.
The proletarian movement campaigned for better wages.
adjective
Relating to people who do not own property and must work for others.
His proletarian upbringing made him understand the struggles of the working class.
Often appears as...
- proletarian life
- proletarian class
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Formal
Academic
noun
A person of the laboring class.
As a proletarian, he worked long hours at the factory.
Often appears as...
- rise of the proletarian
- voice of the proletarian
Usage tips
Literary
adjective
Relating to regular working class people.
The proletarian movement campaigned for better wages.
adjective
Relating to people who do not own property and must work for others.
His proletarian upbringing made him understand the struggles of the working class.
Often appears as...
- proletarian life
- proletarian class
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
noun
A person of the laboring class.
As a proletarian, he worked long hours at the factory.
Often appears as...
- rise of the proletarian
- voice of the proletarian
Usage tips
Literary
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Social Context
Used to discuss social or political issues involving workers' rights and interests.
The government's new policy was criticized for ignoring proletarian concerns.
Pro Tip 2/3Neutral Connotation
Not inherently positive or negative, but can imply solidarity or struggle.
Proletarian demands for equality shaped the country's history.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Personal Wealth
Focuses on class identity rather than individual financial status.
Regardless of his earnings, he identified as proletarian.
Pro Tip 1/3Social Context
Used to discuss social or political issues involving workers' rights and interests.
The government's new policy was criticized for ignoring proletarian concerns.
Pro Tip 2/3Neutral Connotation
Not inherently positive or negative, but can imply solidarity or struggle.
Proletarian demands for equality shaped the country's history.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Personal Wealth
Focuses on class identity rather than individual financial status.
Regardless of his earnings, he identified as proletarian.
Pro Tip 1/3Social Context
Used to discuss social or political issues involving workers' rights and interests.
The government's new policy was criticized for ignoring proletarian concerns.
Pro Tip 2/3Neutral Connotation
Not inherently positive or negative, but can imply solidarity or struggle.
Proletarian demands for equality shaped the country's history.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Personal Wealth
Focuses on class identity rather than individual financial status.
Regardless of his earnings, he identified as proletarian.
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Storytellers Summit Day...
that was amazing how's everyone doing thank you for that overwhelmingly enthusiastic response that was that was awesome lovely thank you to my people the proletariat watching from the cafeteria and the spillover thank you to all those who are watching us on the youtubes and thank
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Why humans run the world...
but they will create -- and I quote you -- "... new classes and new class struggles, just as the industrial revolution did." Can you elaborate for us? Yes. In the industrial revolution, we saw the creation of a new class of the urban proletariat.
Video examples
Storytellers Summit Day...
that was amazing how's everyone doing thank you for that overwhelmingly enthusiastic response that was that was awesome lovely thank you to my people the proletariat watching from the cafeteria and the spillover thank you to all those who are watching us on the youtubes and thank
Video examples
Why humans run the world...
but they will create -- and I quote you -- "... new classes and new class struggles, just as the industrial revolution did." Can you elaborate for us? Yes. In the industrial revolution, we saw the creation of a new class of the urban proletariat.
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Quote examples
Fred Hampton
American Activist
We might not be back. I might be in jail. I might be anywhere. But when I leave, you'll remember I said, with the last words on my lips, that I am a revolutionary. And you're going to have to keep on saying that. You're going to have to say that I am a proletariat; I am the people.
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Clara Zetkin
German Politician
Women's propaganda must touch upon all those questions which are of great importance to the general proletarian movement. The main task is, indeed, to awaken the women's class consciousness and to incorporate them into the class struggle.
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C. L. R. James
Trinidadian Journalist
One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.
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Karl Marx
German Philosopher
Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!
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Herman Gorter
Dutch Poet
This is the absolute truth: and on this truth our tactics must be based. All tactics that are not based on this are false, and lead the proletariat to terrible defeat.
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Rosa Luxemburg
Russian Activist
Social democracy... is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh.
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Heywood Broun
American Journalist
I do not see a necessary connection between proletarian literature and some set percentage of words which bring the blushes to a maiden's cheek.
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Karl Liebknecht
German Politician
The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.
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Daniel Woodrell
American Writer
Most of my characters aren't hillbillies anyway. Let's just call them proletariat with a disposition towards criminal activity.
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Gustave Flaubert
French Novelist
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Quote examples
Fred Hampton
American Activist
We might not be back. I might be in jail. I might be anywhere. But when I leave, you'll remember I said, with the last words on my lips, that I am a revolutionary. And you're going to have to keep on saying that. You're going to have to say that I am a proletariat; I am the people.
Quote examples
Clara Zetkin
German Politician
Women's propaganda must touch upon all those questions which are of great importance to the general proletarian movement. The main task is, indeed, to awaken the women's class consciousness and to incorporate them into the class struggle.
Quote examples
C. L. R. James
Trinidadian Journalist
One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.
Quote examples
Karl Marx
German Philosopher
Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!
Quote examples
Herman Gorter
Dutch Poet
This is the absolute truth: and on this truth our tactics must be based. All tactics that are not based on this are false, and lead the proletariat to terrible defeat.
Quote examples
Rosa Luxemburg
Russian Activist
Social democracy... is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh.
Quote examples
Heywood Broun
American Journalist
I do not see a necessary connection between proletarian literature and some set percentage of words which bring the blushes to a maiden's cheek.
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Karl Liebknecht
German Politician
The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.
Quote examples
Daniel Woodrell
American Writer
Most of my characters aren't hillbillies anyway. Let's just call them proletariat with a disposition towards criminal activity.
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Gustave Flaubert
French Novelist
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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