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

Others decided to sell their neglected farms and move their families to the expanding city of Rome, where they joined the growing ranks of the landless working class known as the proletariat.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Therefore, they sought to prepare the proletariat for its “historic mission” of achieving a socialist society, Hudson said: “It was decided that chess would be one of the ways to do this.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 2, 2022

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

All of them are officials of the church....Now go there and preach a red hot sermon about the proletariat.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson