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
Marx laid out a detailed plan for how the proletariat revolution would occur.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
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
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
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