proletarian
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1. proletarian - Noun
2. proletarian - Adjective
3. proletarian - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Of or pertaining to the proletaries; belonging to the commonalty; hence, mean; vile; vulgar.
A proletary.
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workers of the world--unite!
According to the Ultra-Left, both peasants and (urban) workers together composed a proletarian class divorced from any meaningful control over production or distribution.
During the fifties and the sixties, French singer-songwriter Léo Ferré evokes in his songs popular and proletarian suburbs of Paris, to oppose them to the city, considered by comparison as a bourgeois and conservative place.
For Déjacque, the communist anarchist utopia would fulfil the function of inciting each proletarian to explore his or her own human potentialities, in addition to correcting the ignorance of the proletarians concerning 'social science.'
However, he was never able to make a living with his art, and, as he began to perceive most of the proletarian movement as "putting unfulfilled political ideals directly onto the canvas", he lost his enthusiasm for painting.
Corradini spoke of Italy as being a "proletarian nation" that needed to pursue imperialism in order to challenge the " plutocratic " French and British.