Proletariat Quotes

95 Proletariat quotes by 52 unique authors

This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the world. — H. L. Mencken
Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century. The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become abstractions: the petite-bourgeoisie, in contrast, is everywhere,… — Roland Barthes
The main form of struggle is war; the main form of organization is the army... . Without armed struggle there would be no place for… — Mao Zedong
The task of the proletariat is to create a still more powerful fatherland with a far greater power of resistance, the Republican United States of… — Leon Trotsky
The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat,… — Clara Zetkin
The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, culture. It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie.… — George Grosz
At the crash of economic collapse of which the rumblings can already be heard, the sleeping soldiers of the proletariat will awake as at the… — Karl Liebknecht
The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world. — Karl Liebknecht
You're gonna have to keep on saying that - I am the proletariat, I am the people. I am not the pig. You've got to… — Fred Hampton
Almost all religions provide opportunities for human beings to convince themselves of their own righteousness, to speak in the name of God, and even to… — Stephen Prothero
What I did that was new was to prove that the existence of classes is only bound up with particular, historical phases in the development… — Karl Marx
If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle,… — Johann Most
In capitalist society we have a democracy that is curtailed, wretched, false, a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The dictatorship of the… — Vladimir Lenin
When we say "the state," the state is We, it is we, it is the proletariat, it is the advanced guard of the working class. — Vladimir Lenin
A political leader who desires to be useful to the revolutionary proletariat must be able to distinguish concrete cases of compromises that are inexcusable and… — Vladimir Lenin
The Woman is the Proletarian of the Proletariat — Flora Tristan
Marx's Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for the working class,… — George Bernard Shaw
The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child… — Victor Hugo
Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial… — Vladimir Lenin
Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but,… — Rosa Luxemburg
Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age. — Bertrand Russell
In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of… — A. N. Wilson
But the poor person does not exist as an inescapable fact of destiny. His or her existence is not politically neutral, and it is not… — Gustavo GutiÃ©rrez
Zombies are the proletariat. Long live the workers! — Justine Larbalestier
Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the… — Simone Weil

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