#proletariat

The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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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. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

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The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

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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. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

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Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. ↗

— Friedrich Engels

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The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist. ↗

— Friedrich Engels

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The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

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This republic represents the greatest basis for that universal socialist order, the creation of which is at the present time the historic task of the International Proletariat. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

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