Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat. — Gene Kelly Copy Share Image
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
Civilisation cannot survive if it rests on a propertyless proletariat. — Ernest Bevin Copy Share Image
The unity of the bourgeoisie can be shaken only by the unity of the proletariat. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.” — 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
The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known. — C. L. R. James 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 task of the proletariat is to create a still more powerful fatherland with a far greater power of resistance, the Republican… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Precisely because Marx was convinced that the cause of the proletariat was of decisive importance for the whole future of mankind, he… — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in "giving a hiding" to the classes… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Our stand is that of the proletariat and of the masses. For members of the Communist Party, this means keeping to the… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
If a philosophy is to bring happiness it should be inspired by kindly feelings. Marx pretended that he wanted the happiness of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Social democracy.. is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood,… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Our enemies are all those in league with imperialism - the warlords, the bureaucrats, the comprador class, the big Landlord class and… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The book that really, really shaped my politics and has forever is Arthur Koestler's "Darkness at Noon," which is a novel based… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The anarchists put the thing upside down. They declare that the proletarian revolution must begin by doing away with the political organization… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
World dictatorship can be established only when the victory of socialism has been achieved in certain countries or groups of countries ...… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Culturally, I have always been part of the proletariat. I lived side by side with the sons of glassblowers, fishermen and smugglers.… — Dario Fo Copy Share Image
The old freedom sufficiently survives in the mind of the wage earner to give him the illusion that, while accepting insurance and… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood… Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
“You had to have these peasant leaders quickly in this sort of war and a real peasant leader might be a little… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“The proletariat could plan to massacre the whole ruling class; a fanatic Jew or black could dream of seizing the secret of… — Simone de Beauvoir 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
“When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast… — Karl Marx 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
“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
“...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