proletarian
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“Organizing unions, strikes and boycotts against the rich, demanding justice for the proletarians; he never gave in to racism, discrimination and white supremacy. Al always lived with the joy of his Mexican roots.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2021
Recounted in poetic prose with context from pop-history and cultural commentary, MacLean’s picaresque adventures include poignant reunions and chance encounters with a colorful cast of characters ranging from intellectuals to proletarians, tycoons to destitute migrants.
From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2020
Thus, former members of the bourgeoisie lost out and became proletarians themselves.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020
Kris was a small but very fashionable magazine, a war cry against the earnest worthiness of much of Swedish literature then, which was full of noble proletarians and earnest worries about socialism.
From The Guardian • Jul. 17, 2018
From the proletarians nothing is to be feared.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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