proletarian

From Latin proletarius (“a man whose only wealth is his offspring, or whose sole service to the state is as father”), from proles (“offspring, posterity”).

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proletarian (comparative more proletarian, superlative most proletarian)

1. Of or relating to the proletariat.

proletarian (plural proletarians)

1. A member of the proletariat.
   • 1994, Mobilizing the Masses: Building Revolution in Henan‎, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 47:

     While the May 30th Movement is usually perceived by historians as essentially a Communist-instigated urban proletarian movement, in the suburban countryside in Xihua county the antiforeign struggle attracted a sizable number of peasants. Surprisingly, the Xihua boycott in Youth Village (qingnian cun) was organized in the name of a peasant organization, the Central Plain Peasant Association (Zhongyuan nongmin xiehui).

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