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  • noun Plural form of proletariat.

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  • The bourgeoisie are upper management and upper class, the white collar workers, while the proletariats are the working class, the blue collar workers.

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  • The bourgeoisie are upper management and upper class, the white collar workers, while the proletariats are the working class, the blue collar workers.

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  • It is a mystery to us where the mental jack off revolutionaries of the second category think they will get millions of "proletariats" to man their barricades when they can't even get a tiny fraction of that number to open their mouths to even express a desire for policy change.

    ATTENTION: Defeatists, Cowards and other Whiny Losers 2007

  • He wrote alongside a party of proletariats, writers like James Farrell, Michael Gold, and Josephine Herbst.

    Joe Woodward: Flannery O'Connor for Congress Joe Woodward 2010

  • He thought that revolution would come in industrialized nations with suitable proletariats.

    Marx In Disguise « Isegoria 2008

  • And finally the proletariats drown their sorrows in anything with Schnapps, domestic beer, and any wine in a box.

    A Kettle of Vultures Sabrina Lamb 2010

  • Tim in his time got to go to many places, meet many high profile people and the proletariats of many countries and had the opportunity to raise the level of debate both nationally and internationally.

    Newsman Tim Russert dies at 58 2008

  • And finally the proletariats drown their sorrows in anything with Schnapps, domestic beer, and any wine in a box.

    A Kettle of Vultures Sabrina Lamb 2010

  • And finally the proletariats drown their sorrows in anything with Schnapps, domestic beer, and any wine in a box.

    A Kettle of Vultures Sabrina Lamb 2010

  • If the proletariats think they are happy, they won't need to think or question reality.

    Printing: BRAVE NEW WORLD - 2009 2009

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