💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Proletariate"
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| proletariatnoun | (Marxism) Wage earners collectively; people who own no capital and depend on their labour for survival; the working class, especially when seen as engaged in a class struggle with the bourgeoisie (“the capital-owning class”). |
| proletarianismnoun | (uncountable) The political character and practice of the proletariat; advocacy or advancement of the proletariat’s interests. |
| protoproletariatnoun | A group of unskilled labourers with the potential of becoming a proletariat. |
| subproletariatnoun | (politics) A class of people ranking below the proletariat. |
| semiproletariatnoun | The class of marginalized workers who lack regular employment, such as working peasants, pedlars, small handicrafts makers, and the underemployed. |
| proletcultnoun | Alternative form of Proletkult. [(art, historical) An experimental Soviet artistic institution that arose in conjunction with the Russian Revolution of 1917, and aspired to radically modify existing artistic forms by creating a new, revolutionary working-class aesthetic drawing inspiration from the construction of modern industrial society in backward, agrarian Russia.] |
| lumpenproletariannoun | (Marxism) A member of the lumpenproletariat. |
| lumpenproletariatnoun | A social underclass; the riffraff. |
| proletkultnoun | (art, historical) An experimental Soviet artistic institution that arose in conjunction with the Russian Revolution of 1917, and aspired to radically modify existing artistic forms by creating a new, revolutionary working-class aesthetic drawing inspiration from the construction of modern industrial society in backward, agrarian Russia. |
| precariatnoun | (sociology, collective) People suffering from precarity, especially as a social class; people living a precarious existence, without security or predictability, especially job security. |
| neo-proletariatnoun | The modern, postindustrial proletariat, characterized by passive and uncritical acceptance of prevailing consumption patterns regardless of the level of their income |
| lumpenbourgeoisienoun | (Marxism) A middle or upper class that supports colonial masters and has little collective self-awareness or economic base. |
| petite bourgeoisienoun | (historical) The lower middle class. |
| partitocracynoun | Alternative form of partocracy. [Government by political parties or factions.] |
| bourgeoisnoun | (usually derogatory) A person of any class with bourgeois (i.e., overly conventional and materialistic) values and attitudes. |
| bolsheviknoun | (historical) A member of the Communist Party that ruled the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. |
| petty bourgeoisienoun | (Marxism) Synonym of petite bourgeoisie. |
| burgeoisnoun | (US) Alternative spelling of bourgeois. [(politics, collectively, usually in the plural) The middle class.] |
| new classnoun | (derogatory) The privileged ruling class of bureaucrats and Communist Party functionaries that arose in states that followed the Soviet style of communism. |
| slaveocratnoun | Alternative form of slavocrat. [A ruling member of a slavocracy.] |
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