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proletariat Definition

pro·le·tari·at (prō′lə terē ət)

noun

  1. the class of lowest status in ancient Roman society
  2. Rare the class of lowest status in any society
  3. the working class; esp., the industrial working class

Etymology: Fr prolétariat < L proletarius: see proletary

proletariat Synonyms

proletariat

n.

the masses, commonality, working class, the rank and file; see people 3.

proletariat Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • organize: And, secondly, the working people need a " state, i.e. , the proletariat organized as the ruling class " .
  • organize: Who will undertake to organize the Greek proletariat, which in a few years has grown from 80,000 workers to 600,000?
  • lead: It will not be able to lead the Proletariat to victory.
  • supply: These also supply the proletariat with fresh elements of enlightenment and progress.
  • create: As in the 16th century, such enclosure had the most sudden and dramatic effects in creating a proletariat.

Preposition: as

  • class: This condition may be attained only if the proletariat as a class will reorganize its central organization on a nation-wide scale.
  • whole: They have no interests separate and apart from those of the proletariat as a whole ' .

Adjective modifier

  • lumpen: They aren't lumpen proletariat or working class or middle class or bourgeois.
  • class-conscious: In Russia, as in the whole world, the cause of freedom and social progress now lies with the class-conscious proletariat.
  • revolutionary: To what extent may we look to them to provide guide-lines for the actions of the revolutionary proletariat?
  • victorious: In 1915 Lenin referred in his writings to revolutionary wars which the victorious proletariat would have to wage.
  • Russian: In this way the economic might of the French bourgeoisie also rested directly on the labor of the Russian proletariat.

Modifies a noun

cannot: Without a correct leadership, the proletariat cannot conquer.

Noun used with modifier

world: Every day the foreign policies of the Kremlin deal new blows to the world proletariat.

Possessives

struggle: The proletarian revolution becomes the more possible all the more this unity manifests itself in all fields of the proletariat's class struggle.

Preposition: in

  • revolution: Had Chiang Kai-shek been a reliable ally of the proletariat in the Chinese Revolution?
  • country: What remained to be spelled out were the tasks of the proletariat in the imperialist countries allied to the USSR.
  • power: The proletariat in power will appear to the peasantry as an emancipator class.

Preposition: of

country: The proletariat of each country must, of course, first of all settle matters with its own bourgeoisie.

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