Crossword clues for proletariat
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Proletariat \Prol`e*ta"ri*at\, n. [F.] The indigent class in the State; the body of proletarians.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also proletariate, "the lowest class," 1853, from French prolétariat, from Latin proletarius (see proletarian). In political economics, "indigent wage-earners," from 1856. Leninist phrase dictatorship of the proletariat attested from 1918.
Wiktionary
n. The working class or lower class.
WordNet
n. a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field" [syn: labor, labour, working class]
Wikipedia
Proletariat is the name used to refer to three Polish political parties:
- The First Proletariat (International Social Revolutionary Party "Proletariat" (Polish: ) (1882–1886)), also called the Great Proletariat.
- The Second Proletariat (Social Revolutionary Party "Proletariat" (Polish: ) (1888–1893)), also called the Small Proletariat.
- The Third Proletariat (Polish Socialist Party "Proletariat" (Polish: ) (1900–1909)).
The proletariat ( from Latin ) is a term for the class of wage-earners, in a capitalist society, whose only possession of significant material value is their labor-power (their ability to work); a member of such a class is a proletarian.
Usage examples of "proletariat".
Germany the proletariat had won big concessions from the bourgeoisie during the 1918 revolution.
Due to its intermediate social position and heterogeneous make-up, the middle class is incapable of playing an independent political role: it is forced to either support the bourgeoisie or the proletariat.
If our own government had not been in the pocket of Jew creditors and extortionists, and so fearful of the proletariat itself, which was forever whining, forever demanding, malcontents who despised the natural social order, then perhaps the world would have had a very different and glorious future.
The fighting proletariat of the Communists became in such a pluralistic State also a politically neutral trade union or party.
The proles today are largely what Marx used to call the lumpen proletariat.
Chan Sann said the Chinese Wei Ho talked of a World Victory of the Proletariat.
So the leftovers were all of the proletariat and peasantry, who took their turnaway with a stoical shrug and a whipped-dog grin.
Entrenched in Moscow from searching criticism, the Marxist ideology may become more and more dogmatic and unprogressive, repeating its sacred credo and issuing its disregarded orders to the proletariat of the world, and so stay ineffectively crystallized until the rising tide of the Open Conspiracy submerges, dissolves it afresh, and incorporates whatever it finds assimilable.
Why should a decent and kindly writer like Ernest Bramah find the crushing of the proletariat a pleasant vision?
Like Lenin, Trotsky poured scorn on the class collaborationism of Dan, Plekhanov and others, and pointed out to the proletariat and peasantry as the only forces capable of carrying through the revolution to the end.
At the same time, then, a second path had to come into play, one that would involve a technological transformation aimed no longer only at repression but rather at changing the very composition of the proletariat, and thus integrating, dominating, and profiting from its new practices and forms.
Communist parties, far from conjuring up civil war artificially, rather strive to shorten its duration as much as possible--in case it has become an iron necessity--to minimize the number of its victims, and, above all, to secure victory for the proletariat.
Mainly, however, this deviation is due to the influence exercised upon the proletariat and on the Russian Communist Party by the petty-bourgeois element, which is exceptionally strong in our country and which inevitably engenders vacillation towards anarchism, particularly at times when the condition of the masses has greatly deteriorated as a consequence of the crop failure and the devastating effects of war, and when the demobilisation of the army numbering millions sets loose thousands of peasants and workers, unable immediately to find regular means of livelihood.
If our own government had not been in the pocket of Jew creditors and extortionists, and so fearful of the proletariat itself, which was forever whining, forever demanding, malcontents who despised the natural social order, then perhaps the world would have had a very different and glorious future.
It was hard for him to realize that he had once been so passionately concerned about concepts like syndicalism and the dictatorship of the proletariat and the guaranteed annual wage that he had been willing to risk imprisonment over them.