What is "proletarians"

Usage examples of "proletarians".

Brave words and muddled thinking cannot disguise the fact that Mr Orwell, like all the other supporters of the war, shipping magnates, coal owners, proletarians, university professors, Sunday journalists, trade-union leaders, Church dignitaries, scoundrels and honest men, is being swept along by history, not directing it.

At this stage, therefore, the proletarians do not fight their enemies, but the enemies of their enemies, the remnants of absolute monarchy, the landowners, the non-industrial bourgeois, the petty bourgeois.

It has happened on such a scale as to make the old classification of society into capitalists, proletarians and petit bourgeois (small property-owners) almost obsolete.

The proletarians cannot become masters of the productive forces of society, except by abolishing their own previous mode of appropriation, and thereby also every other previous mode of appropriation.

But this state of things finds its complement in the practical absence of the family among proletarians, and in public prostitution.

Before a certain date -- roughly speaking, before the nineties, when the Education Act began to take effect -- very few genuine proletarians could write: that is, write with enough facility to produce a book or a story.

But surely these revolutionary proletarians have not shown much interest in technique?

The proletarians will never revolt, not in a thousand years or a million.

Or perhaps you have returned to your old idea that the proletarians or the slaves will arise and overthrow us.