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  • An impromptu, a proletarian mode.†   (source)
  • The more than two hundred Red Guards of the April Twenty-eighth Brigade were mere greenhorns compared with the veteran Red Guards of the Red Union, which was formed at the start of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in early 1966.†   (source)
  • Indeed, the Russian Association of Proletarian Writers didn't hesitate to express their solidarity.†   (source)
  • For us proletarians they are neither good-looking nor comfortable.†   (source)
  • Others were condemned to squalid holes in the infamous areas of Gesia, Smocza and Zamenhof Streets, which had been occupied by the Jewish proletariat from time immemorial.†   (source)
  • The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.†   (source)
  • I learned from him that the regimental commander and the commissar were both shot in thirty-seven, no matter whether they were of proletarian or kulak stock, whether they had a conscience or not.†   (source)
  • Remember: when working for the Great Proletarian State, you represent our Chairman Mao in every position you take.†   (source)
  • After spending so much time living with the proletariat in the hospital where he worked, he had lost his reason.†   (source)
  • The dictatorship of the proletariat or democracy?†   (source)
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  • He was speaking to Genet in Tigrinya, but I heard a few English words: "hegemony" and "proletariat."†   (source)
  • Call the embassy and have them send over the biggest, fanciest diplomatic limousine you proletarians own.†   (source)
  • She seldom mentioned her father, nor did she ever try to explain why she had rejected so completely the German part of her heritage; Sophie only knew that Wanda breathed, drank and dreamed the idea of a free Poland—most radiantly, a liberated Polish proletariat after the war—and such a passion had turned her into one of the most unbudgingly committed members of the Resistance.†   (source)
  • You can see that this attitude was dreadfully unfair and proletarian-oriented.†   (source)
  • His origin is even more proletarian than mine.†   (source)
  • 140 MOTHER-JACQUES: Proletarians!†   (source)
  • Because now the proletariat was beginning to revolt.†   (source)
  • To make a long story short, in the end the proletariat rises and takes over the means of production.†   (source)
  • Marx called this the dictatorship of the proletariat.†   (source)
  • For the first time I understood who was the proletariat.†   (source)
  • Two armed Americans from the savage CIA roaming the halls of this bastion of the proletariat?†   (source)
  • This had been Lenin's greatest innovation: a line that, like the Proletariat itself, was universal and infinite.†   (source)
  • An entire decade in which the Proletariat was left to fend for itself, scrounging in alleys and begging at chapel doors.†   (source)
  • Maybe comrade Leplevsky was so dedicated to the brotherhood of the Proletariat (from which he'd sprung), that the persistence of this Former Person in the new Russia galled his sense of justice.†   (source)
  • But in Marx's own time, in what he called a bourgeois or capitalist society, the conflict was first and foremost between the capitalists and the workers, or the proletariat.†   (source)
  • For however decisive the Bolsheviks' victory had been over the privileged classes on behalf of the Proletariat, they would be having banquets soon enough.†   (source)
  • For while these tools had been developed by the Bourgeoisie to further their own interests, it was through the engine, the press, and the pistol that the Proletariat began to free itself from labor, ignorance, and tyranny.†   (source)
  • But after a transition period, the dictatorship of the proletariat is replaced by a 'classless society,' in which the means of production are owned 'by all'—that is, by the people themselves.†   (source)
  • The proletariat was me, the proletariat had always been me, and now I needed to act for the proletariat.†   (source)
  • The toiling peasantry of Siberia and the Urals must understand that only in alliance with the city proletariat and the soldiers, only in alliance with the poor Kirghiz and Buriat peasants …†   (source)
  • The paper was a late extra printed on one side only; it gave the official announcement from Petersburg that a Soviet of People's Commissars had been formed and that Soviet power and the dictatorship of the proletariat were established in Russia.†   (source)
  • Now it had come, surpassing his wildest dreams, but he, the born and faithful champion of the proletariat who had been among the first to set up a Factory Committee in the Sviatogor Bogatyr, and to hand the place over to the workers, had been left high and dry; instead of being in the thick of things, he was in a remote village from which the workers-some of whom were Mensheviks-had fled!†   (source)
  • Today, we proletarian revolutionary young guards have come to revolt against you bourgeoisie.†   (source)
  • We should change it to the Proletarian Photo Studio.†   (source)
  • Who was stronger, you or the iron fist of the Proletarian Dictatorship?†   (source)
  • I am well aware that you are my superior, but then this is a proletarian society, yes?†   (source)
  • You thought it was: 'Come to me, all ye poor and proletarians of the world.'†   (source)
  • You thought it was: 'Come to me, all ye poor and proletarians of the world.'†   (source)
  • I have resolved to dedicate my whole life to Chairman Mao and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.†   (source)
  • The seeds of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution had been planted many years before it burst forth in 1966.†   (source)
  • For a period, we get a new 'class society' in which the proletarians suppress the bourgeoisie by force.†   (source)
  • Having toasted the Grand Duke and reminisced of days gone by, the old friends shifted their attention to the upcoming congress of RAPP, which turned out to be the Russian Association of Proletarian Writers.†   (source)
  • On the right side of the room, the slogan LONG LIVE THE GREAT PROLETARIAN CULTURAL REVOLUTION covered almost the entire wall.†   (source)
  • Aunt Xi-wen tried to smile to show her support of the proletarian revolutionary young guards, but the smile froze before it was fully formed.†   (source)
  • But I could not block out her voice, dry, hoarse, and trembling: " …. refusal to let students pick mulberry leaves was an attack on proletarian students….†   (source)
  • But I could not block out her voice, dry, hoarse, and trembling: " ...refusal to let students pick mulberry leaves was an attack on proletarian students....The more you try to improve your outward appearance, the filthier your heart becomes....Your black bourgeois bones are clearly visible to our proletarian eyes....Remold yourself conscientiously...."†   (source)
  • Ana Diaz, a student who, like Miguel, wore the insignia of the raised fist, observed that only rich women suffer from such pains; proletarian women do not complain even when they give birth.†   (source)
  • Their inhumanity seemed a marvel of class-consciousness, their barbarism a model of proletarian firmness and revolutionary instinct.†   (source)
  • It is essential to work out to the last detail all questions concerning the organization of partisan detachments, their commanders, proletarian discipline, conspiratorial work, contact with the outside world, behavior toward the local population, revolutionary courts-martial, and sabotage in enemy territory-for example, the destruction of bridges, railway lines, steamships, barges, stations, workshops with all their technical equipment, telegraph offices, mines, and food supplies.†   (source)
  • The peasants who settled in the cities as proletariat and petty bourgeois learned to read and write for the sake of efficiency, but they did not win the leisure and comfort necessary for the enjoyment of the city's traditional culture.†   (source)
  • The individual held as evil, the mass—as God, No motive and no virtue permitted—except that of service to the proletariat.†   (source)
  • It'll give her the chance to play the great incorruptible Mother of the Revolution, whose only child is the Proletariat.†   (source)
  • And the Ministry had not only to supply the multifarious needs of the party, but also to repeat the whole operation at a lower level for the benefit of the proletariat.†   (source)
  • I love only the proletariat!†   (source)
  • It does not aim at transmitting power to its own children, as such; and if there were no other way of keeping the ablest people at the top, it would be perfectly prepared to recruit an entire new generation from the ranks of the proletariat.†   (source)
  • Here they did not talk so much about the proletariat, but merely rebelled against the tyranny of reality and of the objective.†   (source)
  • He's the one who's been a Yogi, then a vegetarian, then a Unitarian, then a nudist—and now he's gone to build a palace of the proletariat in Moscow.†   (source)
  • Universal Harmony'—'Eternal Spirit'—'Divine Purpose'—'Nirvana'—'Paradise'—'Racial Supremacy'—'The Dictatorship of the Proletariat.†   (source)
  • The Council signed a declaration which stated that writers were servants of the proletariat—but the statement did not sound as simple as that; it was more involved and much longer.†   (source)
  • And yet I don't suppose that ten per cent. of the proletariat live correctly."†   (source)
  • In the conditions of the proletariat, those of old society at large are already virtually swamped.†   (source)
  • The proletariat goes through various stages of development.†   (source)
  • The supremacy of the proletariat will cause them to vanish still faster.†   (source)
  • These also supply the proletariat with fresh elements of enlightenment and progress.†   (source)
  • They wish for a bourgeoisie without a proletariat.†   (source)
  • Thus the proletariat is recruited from all classes of the population.†   (source)
  • They have no interests separate and apart from those of the proletariat as a whole.†   (source)
  • Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.†   (source)
  • Only from the point of view of being the most suffering class does the proletariat exist for them.†   (source)
  • In the modern confrontation with bourgeois-capitalist rot, the world's proletariat embodies the humanity and criteria of the City of God.†   (source)
  • No one could be more fitly chosen as Patron by a secularising proletariat than that mother of a Saint, who let him see some pretty fishy saints besides, as Suger says, and other great St. Bernards of the sort; for with her it was a case of taking just what you pleased.†   (source)
  • Ostrinski explained the organization of the party, the machinery by which the proletariat was educating itself.†   (source)
  • Do you want to sacrifice yourself in such a topsy-turvy world, where popularity makes you unpopular with the people you love, and the only failure is cheap success, and the only individualist is the person who gives up all his individualism to serve a jolly ungrateful proletariat which thumbs its nose at him?†   (source)
  • He said things—you know the things I mean— about modern communism and the godly zeal of the proletariat that cannot refrain from shedding blood.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • The proletariat has taken up Gregory the Great's task, his godly zeal burns within it, and its hands can no more refrain from shedding blood than could his.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • 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,…†   (source)
  • The point of the dictatorship of the proletariat, the political-economic demand for salvation in our time, is not dominion for its own sake and for all eternity, but only a temporary abrogation of the polarities of mind and Spirit under the sign of the cross.†   (source)
  • His adversary, Naphta responded, showed no lack of the same contradictions and consistencies; he thought of himself as a democrat, and yet expressed himself as something less than a friend of the common man and equality, indeed displayed a reprehensible aristocratic arrogance by describing the world's proletariat, who were called to provisional dictatorship, as a mob.†   (source)
  • Deception is the natural defence of the weak against the strong, and the South used it for many years against its conquerors; to-day it must be prepared to see its black proletariat turn that same two-edged weapon against itself.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, within her, pauperism, the proletariat, salary, education, penal servitude, prostitution, the fate of the woman, wealth, misery, production, consumption, division, exchange, coin, credit, the rights of capital, the rights of labor,— all these questions were multiplied above society, a terrible slope.†   (source)
  • The revolutionary literature that accompanied these first movements of the proletariat had necessarily a reactionary character.†   (source)
  • In all these battles it sees itself compelled to appeal to the proletariat, to ask for its help, and thus, to drag it into the political arena.†   (source)
  • United action, of the leading civilised countries at least, is one of the first conditions for the emancipation of the proletariat.†   (source)
  • The proletariat of each country must, of course, first of all settle matters with its own bourgeoisie.†   (source)
  • Altogether collisions between the classes of the old society further, in many ways, the course of development of the proletariat.†   (source)
  • They hold fast by the original views of their masters, in opposition to the progressive historical development of the proletariat.†   (source)
  • Of all the classes that stand face to face with the bourgeoisie today, the proletariat alone is a really revolutionary class.†   (source)
  • The other classes decay and finally disappear in the face of Modern Industry; the proletariat is its special and essential product.†   (source)
  • What they upbraid the bourgeoisie with is not so much that it creates a proletariat, as that it creates a revolutionary proletariat.†   (source)
  • Though not in substance, yet in form, the struggle of the proletariat with the bourgeoisie is at first a national struggle.†   (source)
  • Further, as we have already seen, entire sections of the ruling classes are, by the advance of industry, precipitated into the proletariat, or are at least threatened in their conditions of existence.†   (source)
  • Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes, directly facing each other: Bourgeoisie and Proletariat.†   (source)
  • We have seen above, that the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling as to win the battle of democracy.†   (source)
  • But with the development of industry the proletariat not only increases in number; it becomes concentrated in greater masses, its strength grows, and it feels that strength more.†   (source)
  • But the proletariat, as yet in its infancy, offers to them the spectacle of a class without any historical initiative or any independent political movement.†   (source)
  • The proletariat, the lowest stratum of our present society, cannot stir, cannot raise itself up, without the whole superincumbent strata of official society being sprung into the air.†   (source)
  • In showing that, under their rule, the modern proletariat never existed, they forget that the modern bourgeoisie is the necessary offspring of their own form of society.†   (source)
  • In proportion as the bourgeoisie, i.e., capital, is developed, in the same proportion is the proletariat, the modern working class, developed--a class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increases capital.†   (source)
  • Since the proletariat must first of all acquire political supremacy, must rise to be the leading class of the nation, must constitute itself the nation, it is, so far, itself national, though not in the bourgeois sense of the word.†   (source)
  • Historical action is to yield to their personal inventive action, historically created conditions of emancipation to fantastic ones, and the gradual, spontaneous class-organisation of the proletariat to the organisation of society specially contrived by these inventors.†   (source)
  • The immediate aim of the Communist is the same as that of all the other proletarian parties: formation of the proletariat into a class, overthrow of the bourgeois supremacy, conquest of political power by the proletariat.†   (source)
  • In requiring the proletariat to carry out such a system, and thereby to march straightway into the social New Jerusalem, it but requires in reality, that the proletariat should remain within the bounds of existing society, but should cast away all its hateful ideas concerning the bourgeoisie.†   (source)
  • In countries where modern civilisation has become fully developed, a new class of petty bourgeois has been formed, fluctuating between proletariat and bourgeoisie and ever renewing itself as a supplementary part of bourgeois society.†   (source)
  • The Communists are distinguished from the other working-class parties by this only: (1) In the national struggles of the proletarians of the different countries, they point out and bring to the front the common interests of the entire proletariat, independently of all nationality.†   (source)
  • The bourgeoisie itself, therefore, supplies the proletariat with its own instruments of political and general education, in other words, it furnishes the proletariat with weapons for fighting the bourgeoisie.†   (source)
  • The various interests and conditions of life within the ranks of the proletariat are more and more equalised, in proportion as machinery obliterates all distinctions of labour, and nearly everywhere reduces wages to the same low level.†   (source)
  • Since the development of class antagonism keeps even pace with the development of industry, the economic situation, as they find it, does not as yet offer to them the material conditions for the emancipation of the proletariat.†   (source)
  • The industrial and political supremacy of the bourgeoisie threatens it with certain destruction; on the one hand, from the concentration of capital; on the other, from the rise of a revolutionary proletariat.†   (source)
  • Such fantastic pictures of future society, painted at a time when the proletariat is still in a very undeveloped state and has but a fantastic conception of its own position correspond with the first instinctive yearnings of that class for a general reconstruction of society.†   (source)
  • If by chance they are revolutionary, they are so only in view of their impending transfer into the proletariat, they thus defend not their present, but their future interests, they desert their own standpoint to place themselves at that of the proletariat.†   (source)
  • The Socialist and Communist systems properly so called, those of Saint-Simon, Fourier, Owen and others, spring into existence in the early undeveloped period, described above, of the struggle between proletariat and bourgeoisie (see Section 1.†   (source)
  • CRITICAL-UTOPIAN SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM We do not here refer to that literature which, in every great modern revolution, has always given voice to the demands of the proletariat, such as the writings of Babeuf and others.†   (source)
  • The Communists turn their attention chiefly to Germany, because that country is on the eve of a bourgeois revolution that is bound to be carried out under more advanced conditions of European civilisation, and with a much more developed proletariat, than that of England was in the seventeenth, and of France in the eighteenth century, and because the bourgeois revolution in Germany will be but the prelude to an immediately following proletarian revolution.†   (source)
  • …of the bourgeoisie, the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc. The lower strata of the middle class--the small tradespeople, shopkeepers, retired tradesmen generally, the handicraftsmen and peasants--all these sink gradually into the proletariat, partly because their diminutive capital does not suffice for the scale on which Modern Industry is carried on, and is swamped in the competition with the large capitalists, partly because their specialized skill is rendered worthless…†   (source)
  • The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degrees, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the State, i.e., of the proletariat organised as the ruling class; and to increase the total of productive forces as rapidly as possible.†   (source)
  • The individual members of this class, however, are being constantly hurled down into the proletariat by the action of competition, and, as modern industry develops, they even see the moment approaching when they will completely disappear as an independent section of modern society, to be replaced, in manufactures, agriculture and commerce, by overlookers, bailiffs and shopmen.†   (source)
  • In countries like France, where the peasants constitute far more than half of the population, it was natural that writers who sided with the proletariat against the bourgeoisie, should use, in their criticism of the bourgeois regime, the standard of the peasant and petty bourgeois, and from the standpoint of these intermediate classes should take up the cudgels for the working class.†   (source)
  • The Communists, therefore, are on the one hand, practically, the most advanced and resolute section of the working-class parties of every country, that section which pushes forward all others; on the other hand, theoretically, they have over the great mass of the proletariat the advantage of clearly understanding the line of march, the conditions, and the ultimate general results of the proletarian movement.†   (source)
  • But they never cease, for a single instant, to instil into the working class the clearest possible recognition of the hostile antagonism between bourgeoisie and proletariat, in order that the German workers may straightaway use, as so many weapons against the bourgeoisie, the social and political conditions that the bourgeoisie must necessarily introduce along with its supremacy, and in order that, after the fall of the reactionary classes in Germany, the fight against the bourgeoisie…†   (source)
  • In depicting the most general phases of the development of the proletariat, we traced the more or less veiled civil war, raging within existing society, up to the point where that war breaks out into open revolution, and where the violent overthrow of the bourgeoisie lays the foundation for the sway of the proletariat.†   (source)
  • If anywhere they unite to form more compact bodies, this is not yet the consequence of their own active union, but of the union of the bourgeoisie, which class, in order to attain its own political ends, is compelled to set the whole proletariat in motion, and is moreover yet, for a time, able to do so.†   (source)
  • …incontrovertibly, the disastrous effects of machinery and division of labour; the concentration of capital and land in a few hands; overproduction and crises; it pointed out the inevitable ruin of the petty bourgeois and peasant, the misery of the proletariat, the anarchy in production, the crying inequalities in the distribution of wealth, the industrial war of extermination between nations, the dissolution of old moral bonds, of the old family relations, of the old nationalities.†   (source)
  • The first direct attempts of the proletariat to attain its own ends, made in times of universal excitement, when feudal society was being overthrown, these attempts necessarily failed, owing to the then undeveloped state of the proletariat, as well as to the absence of the economic conditions for its emancipation, conditions that had yet to be produced, and could be produced by the impending bourgeois epoch alone.†   (source)
  • And, since it ceased in the hands of the German to express the struggle of one class with the other, he felt conscious of having overcome "French one-sidedness" and of representing, not true requirements, but the requirements of truth; not the interests of the proletariat, but the interests of Human Nature, of Man in general, who belongs to no class, has no reality, who exists only in the misty realm of philosophical fantasy.†   (source)
  • If the proletariat during its contest with the bourgeoisie is compelled, by the force of circumstances, to organise itself as a class, if, by means of a revolution, it makes itself the ruling class, and, as such, sweeps away by force the old conditions of production, then it will, along with these conditions, have swept away the conditions for the existence of class antagonisms and of classes generally, and will thereby have abolished its own supremacy as a class.†   (source)
  • Just as, therefore, at an earlier period, a section of the nobility went over to the bourgeoisie, so now a portion of the bourgeoisie goes over to the proletariat, and in particular, a portion of the bourgeois ideologists, who have raised themselves to the level of comprehending theoretically the historical movement as a whole.†   (source)
  • This will show thee how to unite with thy proletarian brothers.†   (source)
  • From the proletarians nothing is to be feared.†   (source)
  • The proletarians will never revolt, not in a thousand years or a million.†   (source)
  • HUGO—(with his silly giggle) Hello, Harry, stupid proletarian monkey-face!†   (source)
  • Proletarians, in practice, are not allowed to graduate into the Party.†   (source)
  • (with guttural rage) Gottamned stupid proletarian slaves!†   (source)
  • And now I find that I regret the advantages I enjoyed in my former proletarian state.†   (source)
  • I always feel like a damn proletarian when I have to admit that I live in the city.†   (source)
  • A proletarian?†   (source)
  • I knew that if they had succeeded in getting me fired they would have considered it a triumph of proletarian tactics.†   (source)
  • He said it without defiance, bitterness or proletarian arrogance; he said it as if it were a joke on him and—if one looked closely into his smile—on them.†   (source)
  • …"best people" from the gentlemen's clubs, and all the frantic fascist captains, united in common hatred of Socialism and bestial horror of the rising tide of the mass revolutionary movement, have turned to acts of provocation, to foul incendiarism, to medieval legends of poisoned wells, to legalize their own destruction of proletarian organizations, and rouse the agitated petty-bourgeoisie to chauvinistic fervor on behalf of the fight against the revolutionary way out of the crisis.†   (source)
  • Soon, leedle proletarians, ve vill have free picnic in the cool shade, ve vill eat hot dogs and trink free beer beneath the villow trees!†   (source)
  • …Lad, Eminent Victorians, some volumes of Georgian Poetry, Sinister Street, and South Wind—and my earliest friends fitted well into this background; they were Collins, a Wykehamist, an embryo don, a man of solid reading and childlike humor, and a small circle of college intellectuals, who maintained a middle course of culture between the flamboyant "aesthetes" and the proletarian scholars who scrambled fiercely for facts in the lodging houses of the Iffley Road and Wellington Square.†   (source)
  • But he sat in Zechman's shop, calm, smoking sponged cigarettes, under the inciting proletarian posters, hearing Latinistic, Germanic, exotic conversation, with large young side of jaw at rest on his collar in the yellow smoke of cold air, mentally blackballing it all.†   (source)
  • There was a whole chain of separate departments dealing with proletarian literature, music, drama, and entertainment generally.†   (source)
  • The secret accumulation of knowledge — a gradual spread of enlightenment — ultimately a proletarian rebellion — the overthrow of the Party.†   (source)
  • She must have slipped into some shop in the proletarian quarters and bought herself a complete set of make-up materials.†   (source)
  • Or they would disappear, alter themselves out of recognition, learn to speak with proletarian accents, get jobs in a factory and live out their lives undetected in a back-street.†   (source)
  • On the other hand I heard that some screwy bunch of cafeteria radicals called 'The New League of Proletarian Art' tried to enlist in support of Howard Roark—they said he was a victim of capitalism—when they should have known that Hopton Stoddard is their champion.†   (source)
  • The subsidiary reason is that the Party member, like the proletarian, tolerates present-day conditions partly because he has no standards of comparison.†   (source)
  • There she had remained for a year, helping to produce booklets in sealed packets with titles like Spanking Stories or One Night in a Girls' School, to be bought furtively by proletarian youths who were under the impression that they were buying something illegal.†   (source)
  • If she had no money, she was a proletarian, and sold herself for an existence.†   (source)
  • The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.†   (source)
  • In what relation do the Communists stand to the proletarians as a whole?†   (source)
  • PROLETARIANS AND COMMUNISTS In what relation do the Communists stand to the proletarians as a whole?†   (source)
  • Colia unfolded the paper, and began to read, in his clear, high-pitched voice, the following article: "Proletarians and scions of nobility!†   (source)
  • He hitched out of his chair, made coffee, gave Carol a cup, and talked on, half defiant and half apologetic, half wistful for friendliness and half amused by her surprise at the discovery that there was a proletarian philosophy.†   (source)
  • Because you were well aware that no new art could come from your own proletarian souls and hoped to defeat antiquity with its own weapons.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • A Europe that knew how to preserve its eternal treasures would coolly, calmly proceed with the agenda of classical reason and ignore any proletarian apocalypses that might be envisioned here or there.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • 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."†   (source)
  • He poured, though his trembling captain's hand required the assistance of his guest, and thirstily transferred red wine from the simple glass to his proletarian gullet, as if it were clearest water.†   (source)
  • Indeed, the present day, when once again one age was heading for the grave even as a proletarian age was dawning, was a particularly appropriate time for respecting such sentiments.†   (source)
  • Hans Castorp pictured Clavdia's traveling companion lying in bed under his red silk quilt, in his collarless woolen shirt, half old proletarian, half royal bust—and with a feeble twitch the nerve of the argument died.†   (source)
  • I. BOURGEOIS AND PROLETARIANS The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles.†   (source)
  • The proletarian peasant woman, who toils by the day, turns round when the diligence passes by, the peasant proprietress, who toils in her field, does not turn round.†   (source)
  • The aristocracy, in order to rally the people to them, waved the proletarian alms-bag in front for a banner.†   (source)
  • They do not set up any sectarian principles of their own, by which to shape and mould the proletarian movement.†   (source)
  • The proletarian movement is the self-conscious, independent movement of the immense majority, in the interests of the immense majority.†   (source)
  • But this state of things finds its complement in the practical absence of the family among the proletarians, and in public prostitution.†   (source)
  • Owing to the extensive use of machinery and to division of labour, the work of the proletarians has lost all individual character, and consequently, all charm for the workman.†   (source)
  • The proletarians cannot become masters of the productive forces of society, except by abolishing their own previous mode of appropriation, and thereby also every other previous mode of appropriation.†   (source)
  • And that union, to attain which the burghers of the Middle Ages, with their miserable highways, required centuries, the modern proletarians, thanks to railways, achieve in a few years.†   (source)
  • Our bourgeois, not content with having the wives and daughters of their proletarians at their disposal, not to speak of common prostitutes, take the greatest pleasure in seducing each other's wives.†   (source)
  • But not only has the bourgeoisie forged the weapons that bring death to itself; it has also called into existence the men who are to wield those weapons--the modern working class--the proletarians.†   (source)
  • This organisation of the proletarians into a class, and consequently into a political party, is continually being upset again by the competition between the workers themselves.†   (source)
  • The Communists are distinguished from the other working-class parties by this only: (1) In the national struggles of the proletarians of the different countries, they point out and bring to the front the common interests of the entire proletariat, independently of all nationality.†   (source)
  • The immediate aim of the Communist is the same as that of all the other proletarian parties: formation of the proletariat into a class, overthrow of the bourgeois supremacy, conquest of political power by the proletariat.†   (source)
  • Bourgeois and Proletarians).†   (source)
  • At this stage, therefore, the proletarians do not fight their enemies, but the enemies of their enemies, the remnants of absolute monarchy, the landowners, the non-industrial bourgeois, the petty bourgeoisie.†   (source)
  • The bourgeois clap-trap about the family and education, about the hallowed co-relation of parent and child, becomes all the more disgusting, the more, by the action of Modern Industry, all family ties among the proletarians are torn asunder, and their children transformed into simple articles of commerce and instruments of labour.†   (source)
  • The Communists turn their attention chiefly to Germany, because that country is on the eve of a bourgeois revolution that is bound to be carried out under more advanced conditions of European civilisation, and with a much more developed proletariat, than that of England was in the seventeenth, and of France in the eighteenth century, and because the bourgeois revolution in Germany will be but the prelude to an immediately following proletarian revolution.†   (source)
  • The "dangerous class," the social scum, that passively rotting mass thrown off by the lowest layers of old society, may, here and there, be swept into the movement by a proletarian revolution; its conditions of life, however, prepare it far more for the part of a bribed tool of reactionary intrigue.†   (source)
  • The proletarian is without property; his relation to his wife and children has no longer anything in common with the bourgeois family-relations; modern industrial labour, modern subjection to capital, the same in England as in France, in America as in Germany, has stripped him of every trace of national character.†   (source)
  • The Communists, therefore, are on the one hand, practically, the most advanced and resolute section of the working-class parties of every country, that section which pushes forward all others; on the other hand, theoretically, they have over the great mass of the proletariat the advantage of clearly understanding the line of march, the conditions, and the ultimate general results of the proletarian movement.†   (source)
  • The remnants of the Puritan civilization had been wiped out by the rise of the proletariat under Jackson, and whatever was fine and sensitive in it had died with it.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, many an apt and ingenious neologism, by falling too quickly into the gaping maw of the proletariat, is spoiled forthwith.†   (source)
  • The prevalence of speed contests [Pg203] of various sorts, always to the intense interest of the proletariat, has brought such words as /speeder/, /speeding/, /speed-mania/, /speed-maniac/ and /speed-limit/ into daily use, and /speeded/ harmonizes with them better than the stronger /sped/.†   (source)
  • As a result, he tends to employ a neutralized [Pg238] vowel in all the situations which present difficulties, and this neutralized vowel, supported by the slip-shod speech-habits of the native proletariat, makes steady progress.†   (source)
  • The Americanisms that flood the English of Canada are not borrowed from the dialects of New England Loyalists and fashionable New Yorkers, but from the common speech that has its sources in the native and immigrant proletariat and that displays its gaudiest freightage in the newspapers.†   (source)
  • Very often, of course, they do not belong to the vocabulary of English, but they at least belong to the vocabulary of American: the proletariat, setting aside transient slang, calls things by their proper names, and pronounces those names more or less correctly.†   (source)
  • It is impossible to imagine the austere Puritan divines of Massachusetts inventing such verbs as /to cowhide/ and /to logroll/, or such adjectives as /no-account/ and /stumped/, or such adverbs as /no-how/ and [Pg045] /lickety-split/, or such substantives as /bull-frog/, /hog-wallow/ and /hoe-cake/; but under their eyes there arose a contumacious proletariat which was quite capable of the business, and very eager for it.†   (source)
  • The American proletarian may still use /skeer/ for /scare/, but in most of the other words of that class he now uses the vowel approved by correct English usage.†   (source)
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  • Or perhaps you have returned to your old idea that the proletarians or the slaves will arise and overthrow us.   (source)
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