What does proletariat mean?

Definitions for proletariat
ˌproʊ lɪˈtɛər i ətpro·le·tari·at

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. labor, labour, working class, proletariatnoun

    a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages

    "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"

Wiktionary

  1. proletariatnoun

    The working class or lower class.

  2. proletariatnoun

    The wage earners collectively, excluding salaried workers.

  3. proletariatnoun

    In ancient Rome, the lowest class of citizens, who had no property.

  4. Etymology: From prolétariat, from proletarius, from proles

Wikipedia

  1. Proletariat

    The proletariat (; from Latin proletarius 'producing offspring') is the social class of wage-earners, those members of a society whose only possession of significant economic value is their labour power (their capacity to work). A member of such a class is a proletarian. Marxist philosophy considers the proletariat to be exploited under capitalism, forced to accept meager wages in return for operating the means of production, which belong to the class of business owners, the bourgeoisie. Marx argued that this oppression gives the proletariat common economic and political interests that transcend national boundaries, impelling them to unite and take over power from the capitalist class, and eventually to create a communist society free from class distinctions.

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  1. proletariat

    The proletariat is a term used to describe the working-class people in a society, particularly in a capitalist society. These individuals typically perform manual labor and do not own the means of production, meaning they do not own industries, land, or businesses, but rather sell their labor to those who do. The term is often associated with Marxist theory.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Proletariatnoun

    the indigent class in the State; the body of proletarians

  2. Etymology: [F.]

Wikidata

  1. Proletariat

    The proletariat is a term used to describe the class of wage-earners in a capitalist society whose only possession of significant material value is their labor; a member of such a class is a proletarian.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Proletariat

    the name given to the lowest and poorest class in the State, and which still retains the original Roman meaning, as denoting, from proles, offspring, one who enriches the State not by his prosperity, but by his progeny.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of proletariat in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of proletariat in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of proletariat in a Sentence

  1. Vladimir Lenin:

    Literature must become party literature. Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down with the superman of literature! Literature must become a part of the general cause of the proletariat.

  2. Lord Billingsley:

    The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super personal force the Race, the Party, History, the proletariat, the Poor, and so on. These absolve him from evil, hence he may safely do anything in their service.

  3. Mark Levin:

    The vast majority of people are not rising up trying to overthrow the country. It’s not the proletariat, rising up, overthrowing the Bourgeoisie. And it never is, whether it's Cuba or North Korea or China or Russia or any of those so-called revolutions, these are Marxist efforts by a smaller percentage of society to control a larger percentage of society, these are not peasant revolutions.

  4. Leon Trotsky:

    If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

  5. Frank McKinney Hubbard:

    Litigation A form of hell whereby money is transferred from the pockets of the proletariat to that of lawyers.

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