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The political form of a society wherein the proletariat is victorious in overthrowing the bourgeoisie will be a democratic republic. — Vladimir Lenin

You're gonna have to keep on saying that - I am the proletariat, I am the people. I am not the pig. You've got to make a distinction. — Fred Hampton

Having consolidated its power, and taking the lead of the peasantry, the proletariat of the victorious country can and must build a socialist society. — Joseph Stalin

The major reason for Keynes's rejection of communism was simply that he could scarcely identify with the grubby proletariat. — Murray Rothbard

When we say "the state," the state is We, it is we, it is the proletariat, it is the advanced guard of the working class. — Vladimir Lenin

They see in the political apathy of the proletariat only the apathy, not the protest against a system that has nothing to offer them. — Red Army Faction

The Italian proletariat needs a blood bath for it force to be renewed. — Benito Mussolini

And yet I don't suppose that ten per cent of the proletariat live correctly. — Oscar Wilde

Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. — Friedrich Engels

The Woman is the Proletarian of the Proletariat — Flora Tristan

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

Most of my characters aren't hillbillies anyway. Let's just call them proletariat with a disposition towards criminal activity. — Daniel Woodrell

Zombies are the proletariat. Long live the workers! — Justine Larbalestier

What figure does the man of letters cut in a country where his employer is the proletariat ? — Walter Benjamin

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat. — Rosa Luxemburg

The first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle for democracy. — Karl Marx

Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism! — Carl Andre

She is a waitress at his lordships club.
My God! The Proletariat!
The lower middle classes, sir.
Well, yes, by stretching it a bit, perhaps. — P.G. Wodehouse

Crime fiction, especially noir and hardboiled, is the literature of the proletariat. — Adrian McKinty

Civilisation cannot survive if it rests on a propertyless proletariat. — Ernest Bevin

The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, 'culture.' — George Grosz

The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known. — C.L.R. James

The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world. — Karl Liebknecht

School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age. — Ivan Illich

I got caught up in the proletariat the way Marx describes it. — Joseph Brodsky

Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat. — George Bernard Shaw

Victory or defeat? It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation. And yet, what can victory bring to the proletariat? — Rosa Parks

The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary. — Karl Liebknecht

If I can't have the proletariat as my chosen people any longer, at least capitalism remains my Satan. — T.J. Clark

The unity of the bourgeoisie can be shaken only by the unity of the proletariat. — Karl Marx

We are the party of the Czechoslovak proletariat and our general headquarters are in Moscow. — Klement Gottwald

Fascism is the punishment inflicted on the proletariat for not having continued the revolution begun in Russia. — Clara Zetkin

The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat. — Andrei Platonov

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age. — Bertrand Russell

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. — Ronald Wright

There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms. — Karl Marx

This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the world. — H.L. Mencken

The embourgeoisement of China's proletariat may be the inevitable result of its industrialization, but 'inevitable' isn't the same as 'speedy.' — Timothy Noah

Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat. — Gene Kelly

Yet internally, poverty, the proletariat, wages, education, — Victor Hugo

What the proletariat needs is a bath of blood. — Benito Mussolini