Proletariat Quotes
95 quotes by 53 authors
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...the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle…
— Karl Marx
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Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
— Friedrich Engels
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The political form of a society wherein the proletariat is victorious in overthrowing the bourgeoisie will be a democratic republic.
— Vladimir Lenin
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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
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Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat.
— Gene Kelly
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As for slavery, there is no need for me to speak of its bad aspects. The only thing requiring explanation is the good side of…
— Karl Marx
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Penal law was not created by the common people, nor by the peasantry, nor by the proletariat, but entirely by the bourgeoisie as an important…
— Michel Foucault
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World dictatorship can be established only when the victory of socialism has been achieved in certain countries or groups of countries ... [and] when these…
— Joseph Stalin
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Social democracy.. is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from…
— Rosa Luxemburg
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The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles...Social democracy...is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a…
— Rosa Luxemburg
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A Marxist begins with his prime truth that all evils are caused by the exploitation of the proletariat by the capitalists. From this he logically…
— Saul Alinsky
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The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.
— Andrei Platonov
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The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes…
— Friedrich Engels
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When we sink, we become a revolutionary proletariat, the subordinate officers of all revolutionary parties; at the same time, when we rise, there rises also…
— Theodor Herzl
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Literature must become party literature. Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down with the superman of literature! Literature must become a part of the general cause of…
— Vladimir Lenin
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My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood… Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any surrendered…
— Che Guevara
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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
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By Revolution, we mean the ultimate establishment of an order of society which may not be threatened by such breakdown, and in which the sovereignty…
— Bhagat Singh
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If a philosophy is to bring happiness it should be inspired by kindly feelings. Marx pretended that he wanted the happiness of the proletariat; what…
— Bertrand Russell
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