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Quotes About Proletarian

I do not see a necessary connection between proletarian literature and some set percentage of words which bring the blushes to a maiden's cheek.
~ Heywood Broun
As the winds of the Great Depression blew across a Japan shaken to the very foundations of her economy, proletarian movements sprang up everywhere, including the field of fine art. At the other extreme was an art movement that advocated escape from the painful realities of the hard times, something that was called, in a sort of pidgin, "eroguro nan-sensu" ("erotic-grotesque nonsense").
~ Akira Kurosawa
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 and labor into the proletarian masses.
~ Walter Duranty
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 which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, English has reached the Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay.
~ Raymond Chandler
He detested the inefficiency of unregulated capitalism only less than he dreaded the waste and suffering of a proletarian revolution,' wrote Kingsley Martin, who edited the New Statesman when Keynes was chairman of its publishing company: 'he therefore made it his life's work to save capitalism by altering its nature.
~ Richard Davenport-Hines
History is the judge — its executioner, the proletarian. - Speech at anniversary of the People's Paper, April 1856
~ Karl Marx
The end result was that, just as Socialist regimes had created millions of dummy proletarian jobs, capitalist regimes somehow ended up presiding over the creation of millions of dummy white-collar jobs instead.
~ David Graeber
There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.
~ Oswald Spengler
Petite taille mais corps solide, c'était un travailleur manuel de l'esprit, un prolo de la conscience thétique.
~ Jean-Bertrand Pontalis
A universal politics thus cannot and must not denigrate sites of resistance that do not align immediately with the workers' struggle. Quite the contrary, it takes as axiomatic the shift from one revolutionary agent to "proletarian positions": "an explosive combination of different agents" is the path for a "new emancipatory politic." The challenge is how to unify these proletarian positions around a common struggle.
~ Zahi Zalloua
In the world today all culture, all literature and art belong to definite classes and are geared to definite political lines. There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause; they are, as Lenin said, cogs and wheels in the whole revolutionary machine.
~ zedong mao iii
The most visible and often tragic sacrifice of proletarian socialism - not to mention internationalism - on the altar of nationalism, of course, has been by the states that proclaim themselves to be, or to aspire to become, socialist.
~ André Gunder Frank
What practical conclusions may we now draw for our propaganda work among women? The task of this Party Congress must not be to issue detailed practical suggestions, but to draw up general directions for the proletarian women's movement.
~ Clara Zetkin
The three sections that he completed deal respectively with dialectics, materialism, and the theory of socialism, along with the anarchist criticisms of Marxism on all three counts. To expound Marxism, he explained at the start of the first section, one must first of all expound dialectical materialism, for "Marxism is not only a theory of socialism; it is an entire world-view, a philosophical system from which Marx's proletarian socialism flows logically.
~ Robert C. Tucker
What the "one country" idea meant to Stalin, as became quite clear from his many speeches of the middle twenties, was that Russia, which had shown the world the way to proletarian revolution, would now be able, with or without help from outside, at the cost of great exertions, to accomplish the second historic feat of constructing a full socialist society.
~ Robert C. Tucker
classical Marxism proclaimed the imminence of world proletarian revolution, Leninism (or "Marxism-Leninism," as it became known in the Soviet Union after Lenin's death) originated in the proposition that there is no proletarian revolution except through the party.
~ Robert C. Tucker
Given all these conditions, it is not surprising that a section of the intelligentsia grew receptive to the ideology of proletarian socialist revolution being propagated by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. In a number of European countries there existed by this time Social Democratic parties professing Marxism as their program and acting in the name of the industrial working class as their principal constituency.
~ Robert C. Tucker
The soul of the classical Marxism of Marx and Engels was the teaching that the revolutionary proletarian dictatorship was the necessary political instrument of a society's transition to socialism and future communism. To be a genuine Marxist it was not enough to accept the theory of the class struggle; one also had to accept the doctrine of proletarian dictatorship as the goal and terminal point of this struggle.
~ Robert C. Tucker
For that, the proletariat must be victorious "at least in several other countries."[587] Only in the further progress of world revolution lay final security—and in that sense final victory—for the Soviet Revolution.
~ Robert C. Tucker
We are not making this demand for the sake of a principle, but in the interests of the proletarian class.
~ Clara Zetkin
The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.
~ Clara Zetkin
...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 society.
~ J. Stalin
He seems to be in a very bad temper." "Not really. He's always like that to waiters. You see he's a communist. Most of the staff of The Twopence are—they're University men, you see. Pappenhacker says that every time you are polite to a proletarian you are helping to bolster up the capitalist system. He's very clever of course, but he gets rather unpopular.
~ Evelyn Waugh
There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
~ Mao Zedong