Proletarian Quotes

38 quotes by 30 authors

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies. — Theodor Adorno
...it was always our view that in order to attain this [proletarian revolution] and the other far more important aims of the future social revolution,… — Friedrich Engels
...a great army of the proletarian party [must be] prepared to smash the reactionary forces and to clear the way for the advanced forces of… — J. Stalin
Political economy regards the proletarian like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him, during the time… — Karl Marx
So much were employers of wage-labor unenthusiastic about proletarianization that, in addition to fostering the gender age division of labor, they also encouraged, in their… — Immanuel Wallerstein
It doesn't dawn on this depraved bourgeois world that this is positively a sin against all reason; that it is criminal lunacy to keep on… — Adolf Hitler
It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language… — Raymond Chandler
Marxism is not only the theory of socialism, it is an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marxâ€™s proletarian socialism logically follows. This… — Joseph Stalin
Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Godel's Theorem ... — Thomas Pynchon
I am not a capitalist soldier; I am a proletarian revolutionist. I do not belong to the regular army of the plutocracy, but to the… — Eugene V. Debs
Stealing from capitalism is not like stealing out of our own pockets. Marx and Lenin have taught us that anything is ethical, so long as… — Nicolae Ceausescu
The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes a proletarian; the… — Friedrich Engels
Much of what is euphemistically known as the middle class, merely because it dresses up to go to work, is now reduced to proletarian conditions… — Christopher Lasch
Must all of them and their families be physically abolished? Of course not? They must be 'liquidated' or melted in the hot fire of exile… — Walter Duranty
The struggle for socialism is the struggle for proletarian (working class) democracy. Proletarian democracy is not the crown of socialism. Socialism is the result of… — C L R James
I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like… — Erica Jong
The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of art for art's sake than a man on a sinking ship… — Upton Sinclair
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was neither a revolution, nor great, nor cultural, and, in particular, not in the least proletarian. — Enver Hoxha
I was brought up on the proletarian left, and I remain there. The fair go for workers is fundamental, and I don't believe the free… — Clive James
The essential point here is that all people with small, insecure incomes are in the same boat and ought to be fighting on the same… — George Orwell

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