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Quotes About Proletarian

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
~ Gustave Flaubert
The proletarian state must bring up thousands of excellent "mechanics of culture," "engineers of the soul."
~ Unknown
The maximalist dreamers of this epoch, the Left Bolshevik (Vpered) group led by the philosopher of proletarian culture, Aleksandr Bogdanov, were effectively defeated by the hardheaded "centrist" Leninists by 1912.
~ Unknown
Present-day culture, social relations, cityscapes, modes of production, agriculture, and transportation have remade the traditional proletarian into a largely petty bourgeois stratum whose mentality is marked by its own utopianism of "consumption for the sake of consumption." We
~ Murray Bookchin
The disjuncture from politics, on the other hand, springs from something which concerns all these poets: the shattered nature of Scottish consciousness, which isn't a low flat floor of peasant culture on which all stand together but a wild junk-yard of high culture fragments, English imports, oral traditions of 'the Scots commons' and proletarian 'socialist realism' from the thirties.
~ Neal Ascherson