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Example sentences for: proletariat

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The tension between the haves and the have-nots is supposed to destabilize the system, leading to--in Marx's view--a revolution of the proletariat.
To the sly members of the cultured proletariat I looked like an average customer, not a fellow traveler who knew and approved of their tricks."
As workers, like, err, Microsoft employees for instance, get vested with options (convertible to stock), or get to buy stock at a discounted rate (typically 15 percent of that day's market price), it's hard to say where the "capitalist class" ends and the "proletariat" begins.
What was the fatal flaw in Marx's scheme for explaining structural changes in society as a consequence of increasing conflict between two classes, the capitalists and the proletariat, whose identities were determined by the industrial mode of production?
Because Hitler took to the streets and disregarded the niceties of bourgeois politics, Lukacs considers him an anti-bourgeois "revolutionary" and a friend of the proletariat.