Proletariat Quotes

95 Proletariat quotes by 52 unique authors

The slaves of today will become the tyrants of tomorrow--the proletariat overthrows the hegemon to become the hegemon itself, only to be eventually overthrown by… — Miguel Syjuco
Victory or defeat? It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation. And yet, what can victory bring to the proletariat? — Rosa Parks
The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution… — C L R James
I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is… — W. Somerset Maugham
What does it mean with regard to tactics, this fact that the proletariat of Western Europe stands all alone: that it has no prospect of… — Herman Gorter
I marveled a bit at the feat Lubianka re-education. I also began to understand more clearly what was meant by rewriting history for the proletariat… — Walter Ciszek
What the proletariat needs is a bath of blood. — Benito Mussolini
Transcending class distinctions, the speaker [Stalin] portrays the relation between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat as a mere division of labor. The workers and soldiers… — Leon Trotsky
The whole proletariat must be armed at once with muskets, rifles, cannon and ammunition, and the revival of the old-style citizens militia, directed against the… — Karl Marx
There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms. — Karl Marx
Where are the heroes and the saints, who keep a clear vision of man's greatest gift, his freedom, to oppose not only the dictatorship of… — Dorothy Day
By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the class… — Friedrich Engels
I have long thought that his [Rupert Murdoch's] social philosophy was contained in his cartoon show, The Simpsons: all politicians and public officials are crooks,… — Conrad Black
The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat. — Karl Marx
One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the… — C L R James
My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses are backing me. — Bela Kun
If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any… — Leon Trotsky
Our enemies are all those in league with imperialism - the warlords, the bureaucrats, the comprador class, the big Landlord class and the reactionary section… — Mao Zedong
Our stand is that of the proletariat and of the masses. For members of the Communist Party, this means keeping to the stand of the… — Mao Zedong
The Italian proletariat needs a blood bath for it force to be renewed. — Benito Mussolini
Without armed struggle neither the proletariat, nor the people, nor the Communist Party would have any standing at all in China and it would be… — Mao Zedong
What is Communism? Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat. What is the proletariat? The proletariat is that class… — Friedrich Engels
How do you think the transition from the present situation to community of Property is to be effected? The first, fundamental condition for the introduction… — Friedrich Engels
By destroying the peasant economy and driving the peasant from the country to the town, the famine creates a proletariat... Furthermore the famine can and… — Vladimir Lenin
Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by the… — Vladimir Lenin

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