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It’s not a proletariat hostel, but it’s in the right neighborhood.

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Ylfa’s sauce enthusiasm addresses class disparity, the suppression of the proletariat, egomania and how food can unite people and tear them apart.

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Fiscal support from the proletariat is great in politics; the last president to marshal it like Trump was Barack Obama.

“I consider myself politically proletariat,” he told The New York Times in 2015.

What distinguishes “A Slight Ache” from “The Room,” The Birthday Party” and “The Dumb Waiter” — three plays from the same early period — is that it’s the bourgeoisie, not the proletariat, under mounting inexplicable pressure.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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