Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat. — Gene Kelly Copy Share Image
The Italian proletariat needs a blood bath for it force to be renewed. — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
Civilisation cannot survive if it rests on a propertyless proletariat. — Ernest Bevin Copy Share Image
What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
2 is a proletariat prime, but 4, 6 and 8 are also composite proletariats. Composites of the world unite; you have nothing… — Karl Marx 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
Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat. — Karl Marx 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
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
I have long thought that his [Rupert Murdoch's] social philosophy was contained in his cartoon show, The Simpsons: all politicians and public… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
The main form of struggle is war; the main form of organization is the army... . Without armed struggle there would be… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
This is the absolute truth: and on this truth our tactics must be based. All tactics that are not based on this… — Herman Gorter Copy Share Image
Penal law was not created by the common people, nor by the peasantry, nor by the proletariat, but entirely by the bourgeoisie… — Michel Foucault 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
The dictatorship of the proletariat and the leadership of the Marxist-Leninist party are indispensable conditions for the triumph of the Socialist revolution… — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
“It cannot be too strongly stressed t h at in t he colonial ter ritories t he proletariat is the nucleus of… — Anonymous 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
What is Communism? Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat. What is the proletariat? The proletariat… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
The bourgeoisie, which far surpasses the proletariat in the completeness and irreconcilibility of its class consciousness, is vitally interested in imposing its… — Leon Trotsky 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
“It never, however, drove him to the extremity of trying to find a regular job. As he makes clear in Mein Kampf,… — William L. Shirer 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
The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles...Social democracy...is only the advance guard of… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
No more painters, no more scribblers, no more musicians, no more sculptors, no more religions, no more royalists, no more radicals, no… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
“There was to be nothing special about it, nothing that savored of a religious Order, no special rule, no distinctive habit. She,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“And here it becomes evident that the bourgeoisie is unfit any longer to be the ruling class in society and to impose… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“...the working classes—that motor of social transformation which Marx increasingly stipulated for the role of the proletariat; the dispossessed and alienated revolutionary… — J. P. Nettl Copy Share Image
“We need to free ourselves from the habit of seeing culture as encyclopedia knowledge, and men as mere receptacles to be stuffed… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. — Friedrich Engels 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
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