29 Quotes About Proletariat

When the proletariat declares the dissolution of the hitherto existing world order, it merely declares the secret of its own existence, since it is in fact the dissolution of this order. When it demands the negation of private property, it is only laying down as a principle for society what society has laid down as a principle for the proletariat, what has already been incorporated in itself without its consent as the negative result of society.

Trabajad, trabajad, proletarios, para aumentar la fortuna social y vuestras miseriasindividuales; trabajad, trabajad para que, haciéndoos cada vez más pobres, tengáis másrazón de trabajar y de ser miserables." (1848, 11) Paul Lafargue, The Right to Be Lazy