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
Even as employers complain about a dearth of qualified workers, a growing college-educated proletariat can’t find jobs they want to work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2025
Perhaps I had joined the ranks of the global internet proletariat, hammering clicks on the abstracted factory floor of the future?
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2025
Labour unions were central to the Communist Party's proletariat beginnings but play only a marginal role in modern authoritarian China.
From Reuters ● Jun. 14, 2023
After spending so much time living with the proletariat in the hospital where he worked, he had lost his reason.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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Once in power, Marius reformed the entrance requirements for the army to open it to proletariats, extending them the opportunity for war gains and even land for their service.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Not proletariats, petitioners, president's, noses, bits of fluff.
From Touch and Go by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Not lords nor proletariats nor bishops nor husbands nor co-respondents nor virgins nor adultresses nor uncles nor noses.
From Touch and Go by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
With that, Moscow ceased to inspire the grand international solidarity of proletariats.
From Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 by Stephen Graham
From proletariats in their own persons they have become men of substance and property.
From About Ireland by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton
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