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proletariat
[proh-li-tair-ee-uht]
noun
Usually the proletariat in Marxist theory, the class made up of workers, especially industrial wage earners, who do not possess capital or property and must sell their labor to those who do in order to survive.
The call of the proletariat is to overthrow the capitalist mode of production and finally abolish the whole class structure.
A dictatorship of the proletariat is the first stage of the revolution.
Usually the proletariat the class made up of wage earners, especially unskilled or semiskilled workers who earn their living by manual labor, often dependent on daily or casual employment and typically having low levels of education and disposable income; the working class.
the lowest or poorest class of people, possessing no property, especially in ancient Rome.
proletariat
/ ˌəʊɪˈɛəɪə /
noun
all wage-earners collectively
the lower or working class
(in Marxist theory) the class of wage-earners, esp industrial workers, in a capitalist society, whose only possession of significant material value is their labour
(in ancient Rome) the lowest class of citizens, who had no property
proletariat
2In Marxism, the industrial working class, people without property.
Other 51Թ Forms
- proletarian adjective
- nonproletariat noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of proletariat1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of proletariat1
Example Sentences
Ylfa’s sauce enthusiasm addresses class disparity, the suppression of the proletariat, egomania and how food can unite people and tear them apart.
Fiscal support from the proletariat is great in politics; the last president to marshal it like Trump was Barack Obama.
“I consider myself politically proletariat,” he told The New York Times in 2015.
What distinguishes “A Slight Ache” from “The Room,” The Birthday Party” and “The Dumb Waiter” — three plays from the same early period — is that it’s the bourgeoisie, not the proletariat, under mounting inexplicable pressure.
Labour unions were central to the Communist Party's proletariat beginnings but play only a marginal role in modern authoritarian China.
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