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proletariat

proh luh te ree uht

  • n  a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages

  • A correspondent reported that the sway of the Socialist Party over the proletariat was complete and any hope of making a dent was only wishful thinking.
  • The division between proletariat and dominant minority tends to disappear as both are lapped and welded in one indiscriminate vulgarity.
  • Depicting a world in which the bourgeoisie and the proletariat are literally divided by the Earth's surface the elitists living above ground and the workers living in the dark .
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  • Breathless Tech Writers Lash Out At Sarah Lacy For Daring To Say Unions Should Value Hard Work
    Perhaps you have been following the kerfuffle surrounding technology entrepreneur Sarah Lacy who recently incurred the wrath of a panting legion which fancies itself defenders of the faceless proletariat when she dared criticize San Francisco’s transit workers for going on strike. Lacy’s sin, presumptuously criticizing the slothfulness that unionization repeatedly -- seemingly inevitably ...
    July 8, 2013 - Mediaite

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