Quotes About Proletariat

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletariat to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeoisie.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

Most of my characters aren't hillbillies anyway. Let's just call them proletariat with a disposition towards criminal activity.

The leaders of the petty bourgeoisie must teach the people to trust the bourgeoisie. The proletarians must teach the people to distrust the bourgeoisie.

Can any traditionally organized government withstand the ideological forces of a technologically empowered proletariat? Call them tweetmobs, blogmobs, txtmobs or simply citizen publishers—everyone has a voice, and no matter how the government tries to silence them, in the Information Age, information will find a way.

Children were idealized by Wordsworth and un-idealized by Freud. Marx was the Wordsworth of the proletariat; its Freud is still to come.

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 demands now being put forward by the leadership.

Undoubtedly, our path is not of the easiest; but, just as undoubtedly, we are not to be frightened by difficulties. Paraphrasing from the well-known words of Luther, Russia might say: 'Here I stand on the frontier between the old, capitalist world and the new, socialist world. Here on this frontier I unite the efforts of the proletarians of the West and of the peasantry of the East in order to shatter the old world. May the god of history be my aid!

Leninism is Marxism of the era of imperialism and the proletarian revolution. To be more exact, Leninism is the theory and tactics of the proletarian revolution in general, the theory and tactics of the dictatorship of the proletariat in particular.

Social Democrats will always protest against persecution of Catholicism or Protestantism; they will always defend the right of nations to profess any religion they please; but at the same time, on the basis of a correct understanding of the interests of the proletariat, they will carry on agitation against Catholicism, Protestantism and the religion of the Orthodox Church in order to achieve the triumph of the socialist world outlook.

peacetime leaders, who are strong in theory, but weak in matters of organization and practical work. Such leaders are popular only among an upper layer of the proletariat, and then only up to a certain time. When the epoch of revolution sets in, when practical revolutionary slogans are demanded of the leaders, the theoreticians quit the stage and give way to new men.

Nul ne devrait jamais travailler. Prolétaires du monde entier, reposez-vous !

Most of all I enjoy central-heating control rooms, where men with higher education, chained to their jobs like dogs to their kennels, write the history of their times as a sort of sociological survey and where I learned how the fourth estate was depopulated and the proletariat went from base to superstructure and how the university-trained elite now carries on its work.

Después de la marcha de los alemanes y de los austro-húngaros, a finales de 1918, el Gobierno bolchevique había decidido reconquistar Ucrania. La región agrícola más rica del antiguo Imperio zarista, debía «alimentar al proletariado de Moscú y de Petrogrado».

La sociedad nazi futura debía ser construida alrededor de la «raza pura», la sociedad comunista futura alrededor de un pueblo proletario purificado de toda escoria burguesa.

Zombies are the proletariat. Long live the workers!

Litigation A form of hell whereby money is transferred from the pockets of the proletariat to that of lawyers.

I believe that the rising of the proletariat, if it ever comes in this country, will end in a colossal victory for capitalism—that capitalism, as at present and in the past, will play off one mob against another, and pick the pockets of both.

The only bombshells that strike my fancy are the ones that will free the proletariat from the shackles of wage slavery.

Karl Marx, himself a denizen of one of the most congested of all London districts, was equally impressed by the dismal conditions of the new proletariat. he sent Darwin a copy of 'Das Kapital' (which was found unread after his death).

Komünistler kapitalizmin evriminin proletaryay? gitgide yoksullaÅŸt?raca??na inanm??lard?, günün birinde Avrupa'n?n bütün iÅŸçilerinin iÅŸlerine arabayla gittiÄŸini keÅŸfedince, gerçeÄŸin hile yapt???n? hayk?rmak arzusuna kap?lm??lard?r. Gerçek, ideolojiden daha güçlüydü.

It is worth noting in this respect that the original proletariat was not the blue-collar male working class. It was lower-class women in ancient society. The word "proletariat" comes to us from the Latin word for "offspring," meaning those who were too poor to serve the state with anything but their wombs.

Between capitalist and communist society there lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat.

What was new in what I did was: (1) to demonstrate that the existence of classes is tied only to definite historical phases of development of production; (2) that the class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat; (3) that this dictatorship is only a transition to the dissolution of all classes and leads to the formation of a classless society.