the proletariat
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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.
From Salon • Mar. 25, 2025
The growth of the proletariat disrupted the Roman political system and invited large-scale corruption.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
The aerospace suburbs had “managed to increase the proletariat and simultaneously, by calling it middle-class, to co-opt it,” Didion wrote.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2021
In Grenoble, he fell in with a group of English communists who engaged in impassioned discussions about the plight of the proletariat and the fight against Nazism.
From Washington Post • Jan. 23, 2021
After spending so much time living with the proletariat in the hospital where he worked, he had lost his reason.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
