Civilisation cannot survive if it rests on a propertyless proletariat. — Ernest Bevin Copy Share Image
Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The Italian proletariat needs a blood bath for it force to be renewed. — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
“And yet I don’t suppose that ten per cent of the proletariat live correctly.” — Oscar Wilde 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
The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, 'culture.' — George Grosz Copy Share Image
“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.” — Anonymous 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
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
“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
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
This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
By Revolution, we mean the ultimate establishment of an order of society which may not be threatened by such breakdown, and in… — Bhagat Singh Copy Share Image
Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
What does it mean with regard to tactics, this fact that the proletariat of Western Europe stands all alone: that it has… — Herman Gorter Copy Share Image
Between capitalist and communist society there lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Political freedom without economic freedom is almost worthless, and it is because the modern proletariat has the one kind of freedom without… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
“In proportion as the bourgeoisie, i.e., capital, is developed, in the same proportion is the proletariat, the modern working class, developed—a class… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
China is now suffering from poverty, not from unequal distribution of wealth. Where there are inequalities of wealth, the methods of Marx… — Sun Yat-sen Copy Share Image
Elites are once again invoking Reagan, dropping their G's and saying things in a folksy sort of way that's meant to capture… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
But the poor person does not exist as an inescapable fact of destiny. His or her existence is not politically neutral, and… — Gustavo Gutiérrez Copy Share Image
“Most of all I enjoy central-heating control rooms, where men with higher education, chained to their jobs like dogs to their kennels,… — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
Transcending class distinctions, the speaker [Stalin] portrays the relation between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat as a mere division of labor. The… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Art is a spiritual function of man, which aims at freeing him from life's chaos. Art is free in the use of… — Kurt Schwitters 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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