proletariat Definition
pro·le·tari·at (prō′lə ter′ē ət)
noun
- the class of lowest status in ancient Roman society
- Rare the class of lowest status in any society
- the working class; esp., the industrial working class
Etymology: Fr prolétariat < L proletarius: see proletary
proletariat Synonyms
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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