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Example sentences for: proletariat

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Poor Beatty has a need to think Clintonite Democrats aren't tackling race and poverty, much like Marx had a need for a proletariat, except that Marx's need was theoretical, while Beatty's is only theatrical.
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."
Mienov and his followers bolted from an alliance with the Oehlerite faction, following a debate over which Leninist strategy best suited the Spanish proletariat.
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.