the proletariat
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Ylfa’s sauce enthusiasm addresses class disparity, the suppression of the proletariat, egomania and how food can unite people and tear them apart.
From Salon ● Mar. 25, 2025
Generally, Marxism relied on the proletariat, the industrial workers in the factories, gaining class consciousness.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
The aerospace suburbs had “managed to increase the proletariat and simultaneously, by calling it middle-class, to co-opt it,” Didion wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2021
In Grenoble, he fell in with a group of English communists who engaged in impassioned discussions about the plight of the proletariat and the fight against Nazism.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 23, 2021
And the Ministry had not only to supply the multifarious needs of the Party, but also to repeat the whole operation at a lower level for the benefit of the proletariat.
From "1984" by George Orwell
