Party of the propertyless proletariat. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
And for decades they resisted extending the franchise to less favored groups such as propertyless working men, immigrants, racial minorities, and women. From Wordnik.com. [Political Affairs Magazine] Reference
In Marxism, this term refers to propertyless factory workers. From Wordnik.com. [working class] Reference
Pius XI called the non-owning workers the "proletariat" — propertyless. From Wordnik.com. [Liberal Economics vs. Catholic Truth] Reference
They dared seize power for the first time in the name of the propertyless. From Wordnik.com. [The History of May Day] Reference
Mossoff: Cohen agrees that there can be propertyless value and valueless property. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference
I mean, clearly, in New York propertyless workers are voting in the election of 1800. From Wordnik.com. [Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800] Reference
It is on such substantial grounds that the propertyless distrust the democracy of the progressives and radicals. From Wordnik.com. [Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement] Reference
They'd been propertyless slaves before we took their world from the kzinti, but now they were building industries. From Wordnik.com. [Neutron Star]
Even many radical English whigs firmly believed that the propertyless were not fit to exercise political authority. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » George Will’s Odd Aversion to Democracy] Reference
One of the great contradictions of capitalism where property is sacred is that more and more people become propertyless. From Wordnik.com. [Election Postmortem: What's Next?] Reference
A system of this kind necessarily perpetuates the class division between a wealthy minority and a propertyless majority. From Wordnik.com. [What Socialism Is and Is Not] Reference
Marxism postulates a fundamental conflict between the interests of the bourgeoisie and those of the propertyless workers, the proletariat. From Wordnik.com. [bourgeoisie] Reference
Sure, laws against theft hurt the utterly destitute and completely propertyless, but they sure do keep society together and prosperous for the other 99%. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Results of VC Reader Poll] Reference
It is not that I challenge this, but that, as an historian, I bring forth evidence that the propertyless challenged it, and they were criminalized for doing so. From Wordnik.com. ['The London Hanged'] Reference
They are no different than the concept of rights for slaves or women or the propertyless or children, all of whom were viewed as the property of masters without any rights. From Wordnik.com. [MacArthur Series on Philanthropy and Virtual Worlds] Reference
It originated for the purpose of maintaining the division of society into an owning-and-exploiting class and a propertyless dependent class--that is, for a criminal purpose. From Wordnik.com. [German Reich the model for Europe] Reference
Coloureds, the majority of whom were the descendants of propertyless servants and former bonded persons, were to witness steady encroachments on their rights well into the 1970s. From Wordnik.com. [The National Question in Post 1994 South Africa.] Reference
These were the Scylla and Charybdis of democratic capitalism: on the one side, mob rule by propertyless democratic majorities; on the other side, oligarchic rule by the affluent. From Wordnik.com. [Winner-Take-All Politics] Reference
League's election manifesto denounced the war as a quarrel between national groups of bosses; it had nothing to do with workers, who were propertyless and therefore without a country to defend. From Wordnik.com. [Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 - Chapter 9] Reference
This was the one bad thing about enlisting propertyless men in the legions; owning nothing and receiving little by way of pay, these men when Rome had finished with their military talents had to be rewarded. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
It has caused more than a little resentment among the propertyless that the taxpayers should actually have the effrontery to propose the still more conservative commission plan as being a radically democratic reform. From Wordnik.com. [Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement] Reference
Gentlemen, upon the great class of the propertyless. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle] Reference
Municipal ownership as a means of taxing the propertyless class 280. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit of American Government A Study Of The Constitution: Its Origin, Influence And Relation To Democracy] Reference
In the service of this system, human beings were reduced to propertyless property. From Wordnik.com. [Countercurrents.org] Reference
In the Class War right is, according to the Socialists, on the side of the propertyless. From Wordnik.com. [British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals] Reference
Progressives have long stood for a wider franchise that includes the propertyless, women. From Wordnik.com. [t r u t h o u t] Reference
To tell the truth of him, -- though he was not absolutely penniless, he was altogether propertyless. From Wordnik.com. [The Prime Minister] Reference
The propertyless are, of course, not affected by political rule, so far as it relates directly to property. From Wordnik.com. [Selected Essays] Reference
For socialists the compulsion of propertyless labourers to sell their labour power in return for a wage is no freedom at all. From Wordnik.com. [A Very Public Sociologist] Reference
The market is based on 'inherently unequal relations of exchange between large property owners and those who are propertyless. From Wordnik.com. [Another Green World] Reference
Its primary function or exercise was … maintaining the stratification of society into an owning and exploiting class, and a propertyless dependent class. From Wordnik.com. [Mises Institute Daily Articles (Full-text version)] Reference
Landowners stood separated from the propertyless; as industry could not compete with agriculture, so those without farming land could not compete with slave labor. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South] Reference
All that is new when the minority attempting to establish its dictatorship is composed of poor, propertyless people, is the fact of their economic condition and status. From Wordnik.com. [Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy] Reference
The object of these restrictions was not so much to limit the rights of the property-owning classes as to protect them against the extravagance of the propertyless voters. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit of American Government A Study Of The Constitution: Its Origin, Influence And Relation To Democracy] Reference
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