Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.
I got caught up in the proletariat the way Marx describes it.
My anarchism is frankly anarcho-communalism, and it's eco-anarchism as well. And it's not oriented toward the proletariat.
Zombies are the proletariat. Long live the workers!
Having consolidated its power, and taking the lead of the peasantry, the proletariat of the victorious country can and must build a socialist society.
The controversies between the proletariat and the middle class had to be smoothed out and bridged over by each getting to know and understand the other.
What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.
God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own. . . by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators.
The dictatorship of the proletariat and the leadership of the Marxist-Leninist party are indispensable conditions for the triumph of the Socialist revolution and the building of Socialism.
Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat.
What the proletariat needs is a bath of blood.
The unity of the bourgeoisie can be shaken only by the unity of the proletariat.
The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.
My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses are backing me.
The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat.
Civilisation cannot survive if it rests on a propertyless proletariat.
Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing.
The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. The old proletariat sold its labour power in order to subsist; what little leisure time it had was passed pleasantly enough in conversations, arguments, drinking, making love, wandering, celebrating and rioting. The new proletarian sells his labour power in order to consume. When he’s not flogging himself to death to get promoted in the labour hierarchy, he’s being persuaded to buy himself objects to distinguish himself in the social hierarchy. The ideology of consumption becomes the consumption of ideology.
The book that really, really shaped my politics and has forever is Arthur Koestler's "Darkness at Noon," which is a novel based on terrible fact about what it was like in Russia during Stalin's time when people actually believed that to get to the point where the Proletariat would triumph, anything that was necessary to be done should be done; the means didn't count.
