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proletariat

[ proh-li-tair-ee-uht ]

noun

  1. Usually the proletariat. in Marxist theory, the class made up of workers, especially industrial wage earners, who do not possess capital or property and must sell their labor to those who do in order to survive:

    The call of the proletariat is to overthrow the capitalist mode of production and finally abolish the whole class structure.

    A dictatorship of the proletariat is the first stage of the revolution.

  2. Usually the proletariat. the class made up of wage earners, especially unskilled or semiskilled workers who earn their living by manual labor, often dependent on daily or casual employment and typically having low levels of education and disposable income; the working class.
  3. the lowest or poorest class of people, possessing no property, especially in ancient Rome.


proletariat

/ ËŒ±è°ùəʊ±ôɪˈ³Ùɛə°ùɪə³Ù /

noun

  1. all wage-earners collectively
  2. the lower or working class
  3. (in Marxist theory) the class of wage-earners, esp industrial workers, in a capitalist society, whose only possession of significant material value is their labour
  4. (in ancient Rome) the lowest class of citizens, who had no property
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proletariat

1
  1. A term often applied to industrial workers, particularly by followers of Karl Marx (see also Marx ).

proletariat

2
  1. In Marxism, the industrial working class , people without property.
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ±è°ù´Ç·±ô±ð·³Ù²¹°ù·¾±Â·²¹²Ô adjective noun
  • ²Ô´Ç²Ô·±è°ù´Ç·±ô±ð·³Ù²¹°ù·¾±Â·²¹³Ù noun
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of proletariat1

First recorded in 1850–55; from French ±è°ù´Ç±ôé³Ù²¹°ù¾±²¹³Ù; equivalent to proletary + -ate 3
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of proletariat1

C19: via French from Latin ±è°ùűôŧ³ÙÄå°ù¾±³Ü²õ proletarian
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