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proletariat

noun as in working class

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This in turn expanded political thought to include consciousness of the decrepit working and living conditions suffered by the Chinese proletariat, who after marching alongside the students on May 4 were increasingly seen as revolutionary partners rather than people who needed to be led.

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Reflecting on the events of 1919, Mao Zedong posited that the MFM marked a key step in the transition from a largely bourgeois movement to one led by the proletariat, the beginning of a revolution that would bring the Communists to power in 1949.

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California Sounds: Reggie Watts and John Tejada pair up as Wajatta with the duo’s first new track since their 2017 debut, a long-form video by Matthieu Moerlen for the Oh Sees’ psyche-rock song “Henchlock” and the video for Cola Boyy’s “All Power to the People” track, a call to action for the proletariat.

Fiscal support from the proletariat is great in politics; the last president to marshal it like Trump was Barack Obama.

“I consider myself politically proletariat,” he told The New York Times in 2015.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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