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
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
