All 8 Uses of
proletariat
in
The Jungle by Sinclair
- And so all over the world two classes were forming, with an unbridged chasm between them—the capitalist class, with its enormous fortunes, and the proletariat, bound into slavery by unseen chains.†
Chpt 29
- Ostrinski explained the organization of the party, the machinery by which the proletariat was educating itself.†
Chpt 29 *
- He had lived in Silesia, a member of a despised and persecuted race, and had taken part in the proletarian movement in the early seventies, when Bismarck, having conquered France, had turned his policy of blood and iron upon the "International."†
Chpt 29
- You might say that there was really but one Socialist principle—that of "no compromise," which was the essence of the proletarian movement all over the world.†
Chpt 29
- It would not do, Ostrinski explained, for the proletariat of one nation to achieve the victory, for that nation would be crushed by the military power of the others; and so the Socialist movement was a world movement, an organization of all mankind to establish liberty and fraternity.†
Chpt 29
- If she had no money, she was a proletarian, and sold herself for an existence.†
Chpt 31
- Of intellectual and moral things, on the other hand, there was no limit, and one could have more without another's having less; hence "Communism in material production, anarchism in intellectual," was the formula of modern proletarian thought.†
Chpt 31
- After the triumph of the international proletariat, war would of course be inconceivable; and who can figure the cost of war to humanity—not merely the value of the lives and the material that it destroys, not merely the cost of keeping millions of men in idleness, of arming and equipping them for battle and parade, but the drain upon the vital energies of society by the war attitude and the war terror, the brutality and ignorance, the drunkenness, prostitution, and crime it entails,…†
Chpt 31
Definition:
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(proletariat) a social class consisting of those who must work for wages to support themselves