Example sentences for: proletariat

How can you use “proletariat” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Mienov and his followers bolted from an alliance with the Oehlerite faction, following a debate over which Leninist strategy best suited the Spanish proletariat.

  • 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.

  • 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."


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