proles

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This level of self-regard in a writer and thinker as justifiably exalted as Smith may explain why our nation is turning on reading: aristocracies breed resentment among the proles.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2025

In the Roman Empire, the games at the Circus Maximus were an amusement and a distraction, a token to the proles as a substitute for being able to exercise any political power.

From Salon • Aug. 24, 2025

In George Orwell’s “1984,” the proles are spared a life of constant surveillance, while higher-ranking members of society are exposed to Big Brother’s watchful eye.

From New York Times • May 9, 2017

"The Lottery, with its weekly pay-out of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which the proles paid serious attention."

From The Guardian • Jan. 24, 2013

For the first time in his life he did not despise the proles or think of them merely as an inert force which would one day spring to life and regenerate the world.

From "1984" by George Orwell