the Bolsheviks believed that Russia's discontented proletariat made that nation ripe for revolution
Recent Examples on the WebLater on, in the 19th century, a factory would include an office for the bourgeoisie to oversee the proletariat. Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 6 July 2022 The philosophical difference between Maoism and Marxism–Leninism is that the peasantry are the revolutionary vanguard in pre-industrial societies rather than the proletariat. Matt B. Weir, Harper’s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022 Enclosure, Marx argued, is what produced the landless wage workers who became the proletariat. Eula Biss, The New Yorker, 8 June 2022 The proletariat profited simply in exchange for unquestioning, loyal service. Douglas London, CNN, 11 Apr. 2022 This is far more than an angry mob shouting in keystrokes, but the proto-proletariat of a feudalizing post-industrial society . . . Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 1 Apr. 2022 Climate refugees may provoke social upheaval but seem unpromising replacements for the revolutionary subject of the proletariat. Thomas Meaney, The New Republic, 30 Mar. 2022 Keep making the proletariat more and more desperate. Jack Kelly, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2022 The scuffling between the disadvantaged proletariat below decks and preening nobs above?New York Times, 1 Feb. 2022 See More