Word: proletariats
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...deserves the tube, and awards it to the rightful owner--the giant rat of sumatra, which for centuries has watched over the tube in the temple of Ampere-Watt. The English-man is very proper and aesthetically motivated. Class war is avoided, and Jonas Acme continues to grease the proletariat with Pig-oil beer--which doesn't make this record very revolutionary...
They found their position in Russian life towards the end of the 19th Century even more marginal than it had been before. In 1887 a government inquiry found that "90 per cent of the Jews are a proletariat of such poverty and destitution as is otherwise impossible to see in Russia." Nevertheless, peasants who weren't much better off--anti-semitic by religious tradition and education; still resentful of the role Jews had played as retailers, the most visible representatives of an oppressive economy; themselves frightened by deep social change; and egged on by a government itself anti-semitic...
Members of the SWP and Sparticist/RCY groups said they oppose U.S. aid to either Israel or the Arabs because such aid "will not improve the situation of the proletariat...
...Southwest with the brown hands that cultivate it. They are not the hands of the small family farmer whose sturdy pride we romantically recall, nor do they hold stock in the huge conglomerates that employ them. The four million workers who cultivate our winter vegetables are a rural proletariat whose living and working conditions sound like passages from an outdated muckraking novel...
...fervor throughout Marx's writings and actions, except for a period at the time of the revolutions of 1848 and The Communist Manifesto. He is a surprisingly effective advocate even when he must argue such an essential but difficult point as that Marx's dictatorship of the proletariat "does not mean dictatorship but the fulfillment of democracy...