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How to use proletarian in a sentence

14 example sentences · adjective, noun

Proletarian means of or relating to the proletariat. Example: “While the May 30th Movement is usually perceived by historians as essentially a Communist-instigated urban proletarian movement, in the suburban countryside in Xihua county the antiforeign struggle attracted a sizable number of peasants.”

Examples of proletarian by meaning

adjectiveOf or relating to the proletariat.

  • While the May 30th Movement is usually perceived by historians as essentially a Communist-instigated urban proletarian movement, in the suburban countryside in Xihua county the antiforeign struggle attracted a sizable number of peasants.1994, Mobilizing the Masses: Building Revolution in Henan, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 47

More sentences with proletarian

  • They embodied the profound proletarian feelings of the people of all nationalities for Chairman Mao.[1977 September, “The Chairman Mao Memorial Hall Successfully Completed”, in China Pictorial, Peking: China Pictorial, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10. From the entry Sinkiang
  • In the Communist view all proletarians are good men and all proprietarians are bad men.1974, Free China Review. From the entry proprietarian
  • What withers away after this revolution is the proletarian state or semi-state.1918, V. I. Lenin, “Class Society and the State”, in The State and Revolution, The “Withering Away” of the State, and Violent Revolution…. From the entry semi-state
  • The orders were simple: keep it plain, keep it proletarian.1998 May 4, Arlyn Gajilan, Beth Kwon, “Tales from the Ruler's Crypt”, in Newsweek. From the entry slave to fashion
  • The poor have been classified as the proletarians and the rich as the proprietarians on the Chinese mainland.1974, Free China Review. From the entry proprietarian
  • Lobashev was of completely proletarian origin.2006, SG Inge-Vechtomov, “From the Mutation Theory to the Theory of the Mutation Process”, in NATO Security through Science Series B. From the entry soviet
  • Ah've never met one Weedjie whae didnae think that they are the only genuinely suffering proletarians in Scotland, Western Europe, the World.1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN. From the entry Weedjie
  • What individual workers think, either unanimously or in the main, is simply of no significance as to the content of the proletarian consciousness.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume III: The Breakdown, Oxford…. From the entry unanimously
  • The task of educating the workers and all toilers in the spirit of proletarian internationalism is one of the fundamental tasks of every Communist Party.1935 September, Georgi Dimitroff (reporter), “United Front of the Working Class against Fascism”, in Working Class Unity—Bulwark against…. From the entry bolshevism
  • For this reason the proletarians of our country have been so long divided in revolutionary syndicalists or insurrectionalists and reformists or evolutionarists.1910, International Federation of Trade Unions, International Report of the Trade Union Movement. From the entry insurrectionalist
  • Embracing poetism represented a definite departure of the Devétsil generation from proletarian art and consequently also a "breakup" with the official line of the Communist Party.2010, Ladislav Cabada, Zdenek Benedikt, Intellectuals and the Communist Idea, page 104. From the entry poetism
  • On the contrary: ever since the decline of the music halls, theatre had been the purview of the middling sort—even when the subject matter was ostensibly proletarian.2005, Tony Judt, “The Social Democratic Movement”, in Postwar: A history of Europe since 1945, London: Vintage Books, published 2010, →ISBN. From the entry middling sort
  • “Taxi,” I yelled, “taxi,” racing across the street and grazing the bumper of a delivery van that veered and stopped short, the driver cursing me with proletarian gusto.1993, António Lobo Antunes, translated by Richard Zenith, “Morning”, in Act of the Damned, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove…. From the entry huffer

Meaning of proletarian

  1. adjective Of or relating to the proletariat.
  2. noun A member of the proletariat.

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Questions about proletarian in a sentence

How do you use proletarian in a sentence?
Proletarian is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “While the May 30th Movement is usually perceived by historians as essentially a Communist-instigated urban proletarian movement, in the suburban countryside in Xihua county the antiforeign struggle attracted a sizable number of peasants.”
What is a short sentence with proletarian?
“Lobashev was of completely proletarian origin.”
What does proletarian mean?
Proletarian means of or relating to the proletariat.

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