Definition of proletariat
1 : the laboring class; especially : the class of industrial workers who lack their own means of production and hence sell their labor to live
2 : the lowest social or economic class of a community
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the Bolsheviks believed that Russia's discontented proletariat made that nation ripe for revolution
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On July 15th a Soviet-era statue of Friedrich Engels was installed in Manchester, where the Marxist thinker lived and wrote about the condition of the proletariat.
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Merridale writes, but to undermine the provisional government and establish a dictatorship in the name of the proletariat.
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Red Army troops beat and starved the proletariat into submission.
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The Chevrolet Bolt, the proletariat machine that beat his nascent Model 3 to market by the better part of a year, is, well, not bolting at all.
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If Rubchinskiy and Gvasalia are dressing us as members of the proletariat, Sergeenko’s clothes are an odd conflation of peasants and princesses — the garb of the former with the price tags of the latter.
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Proudly declaring uncompromising war on art under the dictatorship of the proletariat, Comrade Olsen sells his works without hesitation.
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Origin and Etymology of proletariat
French prolétariat, from Latin proletarius
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