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struggles of the proletariat

struggles of the proletariat

8.6
Workers have hard times and problems when society treats them unfairly
  • noun
  • Formal
translation icon : luchas del proletariado
  • The struggles of the proletariat are significant.

Examples

  • The novel deals with the struggles of the proletariat in an industrial city.

  • The struggles of the proletariat continue to resonate today!

  • In his speech, he addressed the struggles of the proletariat under capitalist regimes.

  • Many artists throughout history have depicted the struggles of the proletariat in their work.

  • The struggles of the proletariat have been well documented in many historical texts that analyze labor movements.

  • Workers often rally together to address the common struggles of the proletariat in their fight for better wages and conditions.

  • Understanding the struggles of the proletariat is essential for analyzing the impacts of capitalism on the working class.

Synonyms

class struggle
vsstruggles of the proletariat
4 5.4

A conflict between rich owners and workers over money and power

focuses on collective hardships and difficulties rather than active conflict

Antonyms

comfort
105 1.5

Possessions and money that make life easier

How Severe

oppression
120 5.5
suffering
636 2.8
struggles of the proletariat
  • Formal
8.6
difficulty
651 2.4

Surface Forms

struggles of the proletariat singular
struggles of the proletariat plural

Morphology

struggle + of + the + proletariat

The meaning is directly compositional: 'struggles' (hardships) combined with 'of the proletariat' (of the working class) yields 'hardships experienced by the working class.' This noun + of + noun genitive pattern is a standard, cross-linguistically common composition, so a learner who knows the constituent words can infer the phrase meaning.

Etymology

Struggles of the proletariat comes from writers who described the hard lives of people working in factories and mines. One clear image is workers with long hours, low pay and tough bosses, and struggles shows their daily fight while proletariat means the 'working class', so the phrase means the shared hardships of those workers.