All 7 Uses of
proletariat
in
Sophie's World
- 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.†
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- Because now the proletariat was beginning to revolt.†
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- The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.†
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- To make a long story short, in the end the proletariat rises and takes over the means of production.†
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- For a period, we get a new 'class society' in which the proletarians suppress the bourgeoisie by force.†
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- Marx called this the dictatorship of the proletariat.†
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- 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.†
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Definition:
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(proletariat) a social class consisting of those who must work for wages to support themselves