Sentences with 'proletariat'
Example sentences and phrases with the word proletariat and other words derived from it.
• « The world had entered a new phase after the Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution, however, one that (for Marx) simplified that continuous struggle of many competing classes to just two: the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. »
• « The net effect was, in general, that the class of workers who had "nothing to sell but their labour", the proletariat, grew. »
• « The net effect was that the proletariat grew and all other conceivable classes (including peasants, small business owners, etc.) shrank. »
• « The problem of Marxist theory that Russian Marxists faced was that, according to Marx, a revolution could only occur in an advanced industrial society. The proletariat would recognise that it had "nothing to lose but its chains" and would overthrow the bourgeois order. »