the proletariat
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“If they destroy the Lakers, guys with Kobe back tattoos are going to start the proletariat revolution. I think that the closest we’re getting to class consciousness is fast food and sports teams.”
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026
Marx laid out a detailed plan for how the proletariat revolution would occur.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
Therefore, they sought to prepare the proletariat for its “historic mission” of achieving a socialist society, Hudson said: “It was decided that chess would be one of the ways to do this.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 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
All of them are officials of the church....Now go there and preach a red hot sermon about the proletariat.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
