proletarian
/ˌprəʊlɪˈtɛːrɪən
/adjective
Relating to the proletariat: a proletarian ideology...
- The argument was that since the era had not changed there could not be any new ‘ism’, or overall development of proletarian ideology, after Leninism.
- Far from being utopian, the Marxist perspective of proletarian internationalism is based on the fact that capitalism has integrated the world economy into a mighty, interconnected whole.
- As we have already demonstrated on the basis of the historical record, Cannon's struggle against Pabloism was the highpoint of his life as a Marxist revolutionary and proletarian internationalist.
Synonyms
working-class, plebeian, cloth-cap, common, ordinary
noun
A member of the proletariat: they are true proletarians...
- It's not special privileges for the proletarians and working classes, but more rights for workers and government employees, and equality between the different jobs.
- The New Economy of globalised capital flows thus creates a new division of capitalists and proletarians - owners and workers.
- Now the peasantry is being transformed everywhere into proletarians and the middle classes in the advanced capitalist countries are likewise being turned into wage workers.
Synonyms
working-class person, worker, working person, plebeian, commoner, ordinary person, man/woman/person in the street
informal Joe Bloggs
derogatory prole
Derivatives
proletarianism
- For decades, the communist machine has worked to fragment national communities and replace ‘from above’ national identities with international proletarianism.
- On the other hand, far from being encouraged to revert to a quiescent proletarianism, working people were invited to participate fully in the new enterprise culture.
- Racial proletarianism is similarly dependent on final victory.
proletarianization
- The proletarianization of ex-peasants would inevitably lead them to ally themselves with the urban workers.
- This had led to immense changes in the social structure, the decline in the position of the traditional middle class, and the vast proletarianisation of American society.
- The Village Labourer, originally written in 1911, is about the dispossession and proletarianisation of the English peasantry.
proletarianize
- Moreover, large sections of what was once considered the middle class, and which provided the key base of political stability for the maintenance of capitalist rule, have been effectively proletarianised.
- The vast majority of the population has been proletarianized, working from paycheck to paycheck for corporate employers, large or small.
- The vast majority of the American population has been proletarianized.
Origin
Mid 17th century: from Latin proletarius (from proles 'offspring'), denoting a person having no wealth in property, who only served the state by producing offspring, + -an.