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

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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"

   Synonyms:
   labour, labor movement, confinement, parturiency, working class, undertaking, labor, trade union movement, childbed, task, toil, travail, lying-in, project

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1. proletariatnoun

   Synonyms:
   PROLéTAIRE, laboring class

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1. List of paraphrases for "proletariat":

   proletarian

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1. 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.

2. Frank McKinney Hubbard:

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

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. 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.

5. 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.