Quotes with proletariat

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  • Friedrich Engels By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live.
    Friedrich Engels
    German industrialist, philosopher and social scientist (1820 - 1895)
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  • Bhagat Singh By Revolution, we mean the ultimate establishment of an order of society which may not be threatened by such breakdown, and in which the sovereignty of the proletariat should be recognized and a world federation should redeem humanity from the bondage of capitalism and misery of imperial wars.
    As quoted in Bhagat Singh and His Ideology
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • Roland Barthes Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century. The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become abstractions: the petite-bourgeoisie, in contrast, is everywhere, you can see it everywhere, even in the areas of the bourgeois and the proletariat, what's left of them.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Vladimir Ilyich 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.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • C. L. R. James One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • George Grosz The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, ''culture.'' It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing ''art'' to defend their collapsing culture.
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  • C. L. R. James The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • C. L. R. James The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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