Social democracy... is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh. Votes: 0, Crime fiction, especially noir and hardboiled, is the literature of the proletariat. Votes: 0, You're gonna have to keep on saying that - I am the proletariat, I am the people. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the world.
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.
It was the revolting sons of the bourgeoisie itself, like myself, that painted the flag red. Votes: 2, By Revolution, we mean the ultimate establishment of an order of society which may not be threatened by such breakdown, and in which the sovereignty of the proletariat should be recognized and a world federation should redeem humanity from the bondage of capitalism and misery of imperial wars.
The proletariat should not ignore peaceful methods of struggle they serve its ordinary, day-to-day interests, they are necessary in periods of preparation for revolution but it must never forget that in certain conditions the class struggle assumes the form of armed conflict and civil war; there are times when the interests of the proletariat call for ruthless extermination of its enemies in open armed clashes. It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation.
The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, culture. — Karl Marx, The struggle for socialism is the struggle for proletarian (working class) democracy. We have been encountering it since 1905 in innumerable books, pamphlets, and articles in the liberal press.
By "Revolution", we mean the ultimate establishment of an order of society which may not be threatened by such breakdown, and in which the sovereignty of the proletariat should be recognized and a world federation should redeem humanity from the bondage of capitalism and misery of imperial wars. If the proletariat during its contest with the bourgeoisie is compelled, by the force of circumstances, to organize itself as a class, if, by means of a revolution, it makes itself the ruling class, and, as such, sweeps away by force the old conditions of production then it will, along with these conditions, have swept away the conditions for the existence of class antagonisms, and of classes generally, and will thereby have abolished its own supremacy as a class. — Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, himself a denizen of one of the most congested of all London districts, was equally impressed by the dismal conditions of the new proletariat. Look at the Paris Commune. All tactics that are not based on this are false, and lead the proletariat to terrible defeat.