Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make proletarian; reduce to a state of proletarianism.
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- verb To turn a person or group of people into
proletariat .
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Examples
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The last time anyone had urged me to forsake my normal life for a run-of-the-mill low-paid job had been in the seventies, when dozens, perhaps hundreds, of sixties radicals started going into the factories to "proletarianize" themselves and organize the working class in the process.
Nickel and Dimed Ehrenreich, Barbara 2001
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Another is the extent to which many of my colleagues believe, despite reassurances to the contrary and the ongoing scrutiny of the budget process by a committee of trustworthy people we elected, that any attempt to curtail faculty benefits and privileges even those unequally distributed, as I will discuss below is part of an ongoing conspiracy by the administration to proletarianize the faculty.
More Annals of the Great Depression: What Divides Us And Why Tenured Radical 2009
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Another is the extent to which many of my colleagues believe, despite reassurances to the contrary and the ongoing scrutiny of the budget process by a committee of trustworthy people we elected, that any attempt to curtail faculty benefits and privileges even those unequally distributed, as I will discuss below is part of an ongoing conspiracy by the administration to proletarianize the faculty.
Archive 2009-09-01 Tenured Radical 2009
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I cannot proletarianize my accent or certain of my tastes and beliefs, and I would not if I could.
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Of course Somalis are resisting the foreign attempts to dump toxic wastes there and to forcibly proletarianize their communities.
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I cannot proletarianize my accent or certain of my tastes and beliefs, and I would not if I could.
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Ginsberg says he lives in Harlem, but it's not the Harlem of the Scottsboro Boys and W.C. Handy and the benign insanity of trying to proletarianize Striver's Row; their comrades are not the comrades of the Stewart C.feteria [where the radicals gathered to talk in the 1930s] nor yet of the road, as Kerouac would disingenuously have it, but pick-ups on dark morning streets ....
VQR 2009
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Ginsberg says he lives in Harlem, but it's not the Harlem of the Scottsboro Boys and W.C. Handy and the benign insanity of trying to proletarianize Striver's Row; their comrades are not the comrades of the Stewart C.feteria [where the radicals gathered to talk in the 1930s] nor yet of the road, as Kerouac would disingenuously have it, but pick-ups on dark morning streets ....
VQR 2009
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the ongoing scrutiny of the budget process by a committee of trustworthy people we elected, that any attempt to curtail faculty benefits and privileges even those unequally distributed, as I will discuss below is part of an ongoing conspiracy by the administration to proletarianize the faculty.
More Annals of the Great Depression: What Divides Us And Why Tenured Radical 2009
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'enslave, impoverish and proletarianize' Africans, and consequently undermine the standards of the white workers also '.
Class & Colour in South Africa - Chapter 15 Ray Esther 1969
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