Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
The embourgeoisement of China's proletariat may be the inevitable result of its industrialization, but 'inevitable' isn't the same as 'speedy.' — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat. — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
The political form of a society wherein the proletariat is victorious in overthrowing the bourgeoisie will be a democratic republic. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world. — Karl Liebknecht Copy Share Image
You're gonna have to keep on saying that - I am the proletariat, I am the people. I am not the pig.… — Fred Hampton Copy Share Image
Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism! — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
The unity of the bourgeoisie can be shaken only by the unity of the proletariat. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
We might not be back. I might be in jail. I might be anywhere. But when I leave, you'll remember I said,… — Fred Hampton Copy Share Image
The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers… — Clara Zetkin Copy Share Image
A political leader who desires to be useful to the revolutionary proletariat must be able to distinguish concrete cases of compromises that… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
The revolution in Russia was terrible for the proletariat in the long years of its development and it is terrible now, after… — Herman Gorter Copy Share Image
“The Italian philosopher Paolo Virno says we have moved from having a “proletariat”—a solid block of manual workers with jobs—to a “precariat,”… — Johann Hari Copy Share Image
...the very cannibalism of the counterrevolution will convince the nations that there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Elites are once again invoking Reagan, dropping their Gs and saying things in a folksy sort of way thats meant to capture… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
At the crash of economic collapse of which the rumblings can already be heard, the sleeping soldiers of the proletariat will awake… — Karl Liebknecht Copy Share Image
“To the Jacobins of this epoch [the French Revolution], as well as to those of our times, this popular entity constitutes a… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
Whereas the property-owning middle class could win freedom for themselves on the basis of rights to property--thus excluding others from the freedom… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
By destroying the peasant economy and driving the peasant from the country to the town, the famine creates a proletariat... Furthermore the… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. The old proletariat sold its labour power in order to subsist; what little leisure… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
Karl Marx predicted the eventual withering away of the state and the 'dictatorship of the proletariat,' when the people would rule, which… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
As we know, the goal of every struggle is victory. But if the proletariat is to achieve victory, all the workers, irrespective… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
“The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.” — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known. — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
When we say "the state," the state is We, it is we, it is the proletariat, it is the advanced guard of… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
My anarchism is frankly anarcho-communalism, and it's eco-anarchism as well. And it's not oriented toward the proletariat. — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary. — Karl Liebknecht Copy Share Image
Victory or defeat? It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation. And yet, what can victory bring to the… — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
Litigation: A form of hell whereby money is transferred from the pockets of the proletariat to that of lawyers. — Kin Hubbard Copy Share Image
“And yet I don’t suppose that ten per cent of the proletariat live correctly.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“She is a waitress at his lordships club. My God! The Proletariat! The lower middle classes, sir. Well, yes, by stretching it… — P G Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
If I can't have the proletariat as my chosen people any longer, at least capitalism remains my Satan. — T. J. Clark Copy Share Image
“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, 'culture.' — George Grosz Copy Share Image
“Karl Marx, himself a denizen of one of the most congested of all London districts, was equally impressed by the dismal conditions… — Steve Jones Copy Share Image
![“To the Jacobins of this epoch [the French Revolution], as well as to those of our times, this popular entity constitutes a superior personality possessing attributes peculiar to the gods of never having to answer for their actions and never making a mistake. Their wishes must be humbly acceded to…” quote by Gustave Le Bon](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/eb6/gustave-le-bon-10163_character_to-the-jacobins-of-this-epoch-the-french_220492.jpg)
