Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. You may find more data at proletariat.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Proletariat.

Examples

  • Luckily the headphones I found at the airport in Oslo, called Proletariat, look like an undercover skullcandy set.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Torill 2007

  • Luckily the headphones I found at the airport in Oslo, called Proletariat, look like an undercover skullcandy set.

    Happy geek in gadget-love Torill 2007

  • You're coming out of a club called the Proletariat in Houston early on Thursday morning, you're about to get into your car, you've got your keys out, ready to get in.

    CNN Transcript Mar 20, 2006 2006

  • Dictatorship of the Proletariat, which is Socialism.

    The Red Conspiracy Joseph J. Mereto

  • This fear of what is vaguely termed the Proletariat is still frequently to be met with in Russia, and I have often taken pains to discover precisely what is meant by the term.

    Russia Donald Mackenzie Wallace 1880

  • The dispossessed are referred to as the "Proletariat" a term used today mostly by Marxists, which predates Marx by half a century.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Richard Aleman 2007

  • The dispossessed are referred to as the "Proletariat" a term used today mostly by Marxists, which predates Marx by half a century.

    Capitalism is not Catholic Athanasius 2007

  • All that has changed is that your reader has swapped out words like 'means of production', 'Proletariat', and 'Bourgeoisie'.

    Good letter from an anonymous reader 2007

  • "Proletariat" and "Proletarian" are constantly falling, do not, when it comes to the point, want to obey the Will of the Majority of the whole

    The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography John St. Loe Strachey 1893

  • Both drive towards a state governed by a unitary power - the dictatorship of the Caliphate, or of the "Proletariat" or of the Socialist State apparatus.

    Israpundit Ted Belman 2010

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.